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Takashi Shimizu (written by)
Release Date:
11 February 2000 (Japan)
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Jealous of his wifes love for another man, a teacher from her high school, a man brutally kills his wife and young son...
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Teacher
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Jaw Ripped Off
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Fear
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Ghost Story
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Grudge 3 Gets an R, First Stills!
(From Dread Central. 3 December 2008, 11:26 PM, PST)
TOKYO GORE POLICE Diretor Talks DRILL BRA SISTERS and JU-ON!
(From Twitch. 24 September 2008, 2:05 PM, PDT)
(From Dread Central. 3 December 2008, 11:26 PM, PST)
TOKYO GORE POLICE Diretor Talks DRILL BRA SISTERS and JU-ON!
(From Twitch. 24 September 2008, 2:05 PM, PDT)
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The first of the series is still the most effective
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Yûrei Yanagi | ... | Shunsuke Kobayashi (segment "Toshio") |
| Yue | ... | Manami Kobayashi (segment "Toshio") |
| Ryôta Koyama | ... | Toshio Saeki (segment "Toshio") |
| Hitomi Miwa | ... | Yuki (segment "Yuki") |
| Asumi Miwa | ... | Kanna Murakami (segment "Yuki") |
| Yumi Yoshiyuki | ... | Noriko Murakami (segment "Yuki") |
| Kazushi Andô | ... | Tsuyoshi Murakami (segment "Yuki") |
 | Chiaki Kuriyama | ... | Mizuho Tamura (segment "Mizuho") |
| Yoriko Douguchi | ... | Nakamura (segment "Mizuho") (as Yoriko Dôguchi) |
| Jun'ichi Kiuchi | ... | Tezuka (segment "Mizuho") |
| Denden | ... | Yoshikawa (segment "Kanna") |
| Tarô Suwa | ... | Kamio (segment "Kanna") |
| Reita Serizawa | ... | Iizuka (segment "Kanna") |
| Shirô Namiki | ... | Kansatsui (segment "Kanna") |
| Takako Fuji | ... | Kayako Saeki (segment "Kayako") |
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Ju-on: The Curse (International: English title) (informal title)
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The strange vocal sounds were performed by director Takashi Shimizu.
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Referenced in Oculus: Chapter 3 - The Man with the Plan (2006)
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Although the first two movies of the Ju-on series were super low-budget direct-to-video affairs, I find this first one holds its own next to -- and is in many ways still creepier than -- the 2002 theatrical box office smash.
This movie establishes the curse that stems from the murder of a young woman, Kayako, and her son, Toshio, by Kayako's jealous husband. The movie jumps around in time, playing scenes out of sequence in a way that is more interesting dramatically than if it had all been drawn out chronologically.
Takashi Shimizu relies upon generating an eerie mood, a nonstop aura of unease that permeates each scene, to creep audiences out, rather than by throwing gore and special effects at you in the way American horror films usually do. (In fact, the one CGI effects shot in this movie is its cheesiest; they just haven't got the budget to pull it off.) By the time we finally see Kayako crawling down the stairs, we've been put so ill at ease by one inexplicable, disturbing event after another that the first sight of her is bloodcurdling.
In all, Ju-on is a swell example of how to generate chills with next to no money but boundless imagination and talent.
8/10