dear japanese film archivists, tell me something

i am ovaries-deep in work but I want to ask you a question: I went to the Park Slope Pavilion & saw this movie Dark Water (aka The Ring: Outtakes) perhaps you have heard of it, starring famous Park Slopana Jennifer Connolly, who votes at the same jr. high school as I do, but surely lives in a much nicer apartment. So anywz, the film is not so scary, but like other Koji Suzuki scripts, the idea of unfulfilled motherly duty jet-fuels its fear factor. My question is this: does mother-seperation/abandonment paranoia fit into a specifically Japanese, national culture-matrix like the badracula post-apocalyptic teen slasher flix and gruesome tales of crazed vengeful dominatrixes? (Linked are my two faves.)
OR!
Is this simply lurking in the mind of Koji Suzuki and I should maybe give him the number of my thurrapist? (Miya Yoshiko, pls come to the front of the class; I think you just answered my question.)
Anyway say something pls and I will do some research and write on it here, after I am done with the crazy amt of craziness I am currently arm-wrestling.