Silent Hill & Fatal Frame Creators: “Women Dominate Japanese Horror Because Oppression”
Silent Hill producer Motoi Okamoto and Fatal Frame creator Makoto Shibata have discussed why women frequently appear as both protagonists and terrifying ghosts in Japanese horror, suggesting that the genre’s traditions are closely connected to the “historical oppression of women”.
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