Hideo Nakata

Birthday: 19 July 1961, Okayama, Japan

Hideo Nakata was born on July 19, 1961 in Okayama, Japan. He is a director and writer, known for The Ring Two (2005), Ringu (1998) and Honogurai mizu no soko kara (2002).

[Children] are closer to the Other World than adults are. And they can be possessed by the supernatu Show more [Children] are closer to the Other World than adults are. And they can be possessed by the supernatural specifically because they are close to that world. Hide

This may sound too simple but Asian ghosts can stand just behind you and can stare at you and doesn' Show more This may sound too simple but Asian ghosts can stand just behind you and can stare at you and doesn't say anything, just stands and stares at the main character. And that could be scary from our point of view... Whereas western movies, in general, westerns ghosts are an evil existence and are meant to do something to the victims, they attack the victims. So that is a difference that active feeling, the aggressiveness of the apparition in the western horror movies whereas in the Asian ones it's not. But of course there are exceptions like the Robert Wise film The Haunting or The Turn of the Screw, those movies the ghosts were just there. In fact with The Haunting there was no ghost whatsoever in the movie, so there are some exceptions. Hide

Hideo Nakata's FILMOGRAPHY

as Director (6) as Creator (1)

Sadako [Audio: Japanese]

Dark Water

Death Note 3: L Change The World

Chatroom

Ringu [Sub: Eng]

Dont Look Up (2009)

The Ring Two