In the footsteps of Sadako. The spectrum of literature taken to the cinema
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Trasvasestlc.v0i1.6728Keywords:
literature, cinema, film adaptation, Koji Suzuki, Hideo Nakata, Ringu, J-horrorAbstract
At the end of the last century the so-called J- horror (Japanese horror) revolutionized the genre of film horror globally due to the success achieved by Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1998). Naturally, when a film innovates so successfully, a huge flow of debtor productions flooded the screens around the world trying to emulate it. However, Sadako, the well-known movie ghost, actually came from a novel written in 1991 by Koji Suzuki. Our task in this article will be to Delve into the mechanisms that explain this transfer between literature and cinema, touching key aspects such as Nakata's vital experience when he filmed his adaptation, or for what reasons the original novel should not be considered within the J-horror genre.
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