Mari Asato (Director)

Mari Asato is a Japanese director and screenwriter from Okinawa. She first got into filmmaking while enrolled at Yokohama National University.

She got her start as an assistant director under Akihiko Shiota.

Filmography as director

Year	Movie	Role
2004	Sodom the Killer

Asami Mizukawa to star in Mari Asato’s upcoming horror movie "Bilocation"

Today it was announced that actress Asami Mizukawa will play a dual role in Mari Asato’s Bilocation, an upcoming horror film in which a person’s doppelganger suddenly appears and tries to...

3 years ago
Trailers for Mari Asato’s “The Chasing World 3”, “The Chasing World 4”, and “The Chasing World 5”

The Japanese pop culture blog Gigazine has posted individual trailers for the trilogy of "Real Onigokko" (English title: The Chasing World) movies being released in Japan this May.All three movies...

4 years ago
Combined teaser for two new Ju-on movies

I have to admit when I first saw some photos of the geriatric ghost taking Kayako’s place in the new Ju-on movie I kind of assumed she was a joke or some actress they hired specifically for the...

7 years ago