Introduction: Film has always been more than entertainment; it reflects the cultural, historical, and aesthetic frameworks from which it emerges. During my undergraduate - Bachelor of Arts at the University of Sydney (2014–2018), I studied a wide range of disciplines beyond my foundation in Dentistry — from Art History, Race & Gender, and Cultural Studies to Film Studies, Japanese Media, Literature, and History. Collectively, these fields gave me an interdisciplinary lens through which to view cinema not merely as narrative, but as a cultural text shaped by deep-rooted traditions. One of the most compelling opportunities came in JPNS2672: Japanese Media and Popular Culture, where I undertook a comparative analysis of Hideo Nakata’s Ringu (1998) and its Hollywood remake The Ring (2002)....