Mari Asato began her career as a photographer working as an apprentice under Kiyoshi Kurosawa during the filming of Barren Illusions in 1999.
Directed by a woman and starring a female lead, as well as being an adaptation drawing from the works of Hojo, the female-authored Bilocation distinguished itself from the male-dominated genre.
Starring a veteran of Japanese horror, Asami Mizukawa, the film draws multiple hidden parallels to doppelgänger tropes and religion, specifically the story of Cain and Abel in the Book of Genesis.
[1] Also an adaptation of Eiji Otsuka's original novel Fatal Frame: A Curse Affecting Only Girls, Asato uses the graphic description and contents to build a greater horror base in visual effects.
In reference to the all-girl high school, Asato either builds upon or avoids generalized female gender tropes while casting new unknown actresses.