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Ju-on: The Grudge

Original title: Ju-on
  • 20022002
  • RR
  • 1h 32m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
46K
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Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)
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Horror
A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
46K
YOUR RATING
    • Takashi Shimizu
    • Takashi Shimizu
  • Stars
    • Megumi Okina
    • Misaki Itô
    • Misa Uehara
    • Takashi Shimizu
    • Takashi Shimizu
  • Stars
    • Megumi Okina
    • Misaki Itô
    • Misa Uehara
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 220User reviews
    • 144Critic reviews
    • 48Metascore
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    Ju-on
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    Takako Fuji and Misa Uehara in Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)
    Megumi Okina and Takako Fuji in Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)
    Megumi Okina in Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)
    Megumi Okina, Takako Fuji, and Yuya Ozeki in Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)
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    Yôji Tanaka in Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)
    Takako Fuji in Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)

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    Megumi Okina
    Megumi Okina
    • Rika Nishina
    Misaki Itô
    Misaki Itô
    • Hitomi Tokunaga
    Misa Uehara
    Misa Uehara
    • Izumi Tôyama
    Yui Ichikawa
    Yui Ichikawa
    • Chiharu
    Kanji Tsuda
    Kanji Tsuda
    • Katsuya Tokunaga
    Kayoko Shibata
    • Mariko
    Yukako Kukuri
    • Miyuki
    Shuri Matsuda
    • Kazumi Tokunaga
    Yôji Tanaka
    • Yûji Tôyama
    • (as Yoji Tanaka)
    Yoshiyuki Morishita
    Yoshiyuki Morishita
    • Keibiin
    Hideo Sakaki
    • Fukushi Sentâ Jimuin
    Takashi Matsuyama
    • Takeo Saeki
    Yuya Ozeki
    • Toshio
    Takako Fuji
    Takako Fuji
    • Kayako
    Chikara Ishikura
    • Hirohashi
    Chikako Isomura
    • Sachie
    Chiona Ôkuni
    • Erebêtâ no Onna
    Miho Fujima
    • Joshi Ana
      • Takashi Shimizu
      • Takashi Shimizu
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    • Trivia
      This film is actually the third installment of the Ju-on series, and the first to get a wide theatrical release. It was preceded by two low budget films from 2000 known as (Ju-on: The Curse (2000) and Ju-on: The Curse 2 (2000)), whose storylines are continued in this sequel.
    • Goofs
      (at around 1h 18 mins) When Rika wakes up in bed to a room full of yowling black cats, several of the cats are obviously statues. Some of them are even clearly replicas of the same statue.
    • Quotes

      [repeated line]

      Hirohashi: Thanks for the effort.

    • Alternate versions
      In the Technical Specifications link for the film, there are two versions of this film listed, one with a runtime "1 hr 32 min (92 min)" and another clocking in at "1 hr 43 min (103 min) (original cut)".
    • Connections
      Featured in Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film (2009)
    • Soundtracks
      Kagi ga akanai
      Music by Hiroyuki Hamamoto

      Lyrics by Kei Noguchi

      Performed by Suitei Shôjo

      Courtesy of Epic Records Japan

    User reviews220

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    7/10
    Pretty Good
    "Ju-On, The Grudge" is not an easy movie to find in America (or at least it wasn't when I first wrote this review) , and after hearing it hyped to the heavens in magazines such as Fangoria and Rue Morgue, and by word of mouth as well, I knew I had to see it. I finally tracked it down in LA and watched it the very first chance I got to do so.

    Ju-On is a chapter story about a haunted house in a Tokyo suburb. The film begins when an inexperienced social worker shows up at the house and comes face to face with the horror within. The story jumps around from past to present, its chapters focusing on one character at a time until it has come full circle. Everyone unwise enough to enter the cursed house winds up dead, the haunting spreading like a virus. It seems that a terrible murder once took place in this house and the rage surrounding the act of violence has spawned its own evil curse. To enter the house is to be immediately infected and the haunting follows people home, driving them to near madness before dragging them away, never to be seen again.

    Ju-On bears more than a passing resemblance to its popular predecessor "Ringu" and is nowhere near as frightening, but it's not a bad film by any means. Butchered mother-ghost Kayako is very Sadako-like, crawling around with her long black hair in her face and moving with unearthly jerkiness. Her blue-white face is quite startling with its huge staring eyes and occasional splashes of blood. Her ghost son, Toshio, is both sad and frightening, appearing both as a normal boy and a pale, wide-eyed ghost. Many of the films most frightening sequences feature the murdered woman Kayako: her head full of black hair peeking around a corner, her shadow moving down a corridor and filling a security camera, a head-on shot of her crawling through an attic at night with only the beam of a flashlight illuminating her. The sound effects are quite disturbing as well and the performances are convincingly well done.

    I wasn't as scared by this movie as had been promised I would be, but that's what happens when you buy into the hype. I was simply expecting too much, and I got a pretty good ghost story instead. Ju-On is good. It's not great, but it's a decent, straightforward ghost story with more than enough scary moments to please most horror fans. Ringu was scarier, but Ju-On is a noble effort. Like most Asian horror stories, it remains ambiguous and open-ended, leaving room for both a sequel and the chance for you to decide for yourself what the curse of The Grudge really is.

    7 out of 10 stars.
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    FAQ7

    • Is "Ju-on: The Grudge" based on a book?
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    • Release date
      • January 25, 2003 (Japan)
      • Japan
      • Official site
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Nerima, Tokyo, Japan
    • Production companies
      • Pioneer LDC
      • Nikkatsu
      • Oz Company
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    • 1 hour 32 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital
      • DTS-Stereo

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