Other Titles • Ju-on: The Grudge (2003) • The Grudge • Ju-on 3
Synopses for Ju-on: The Grudge (2003)
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A volunteer home-care worker, Nishina Rika, comes to call on a house occupied by a bed-ridden old lady, Tokunaga Sachie. There is a strange atmosphere in the house and Sachie is obviously terrified of something. On the second floor Rika finds a closet shut with duct tape, in which hides a boy holding a black cat. Startled, she asks the boy's name, and he answers 'Toshio'. Rika sees an angry spirit and faints while Sachie dies, raving in terror. Several days earlier . . . Sachie's son Katsuya returns home from work to find his wife Kazumi collapsed in their bedroom, unresponsive. Sensing something behind him, he turns to see a boy with pure-white skin standing there. The boy's mouth opens, and we hear the scream of a cat. Katsuya's eyes glaze, as if he is in the grip of something. At this point his younger sister, Hitomi, arrives, but he tells her that she's come at a bad time and sends her away. On the day that Rika comes to call, Hitomi is attacked at work by an angry spirit, escapes, and witnesses the death of a security guard who has gone to investigate. She flees to her apartment. The doorbell sounds and she looks through the peep-hole to see her brother Katsuya standing there. But when she opens the door, she finds no one. Sachie's body is discovered, and with her Rika, who is in shock but otherwise unhurt. In the crawlway under the roof are found the bodies of Katsuya and Kazumi. The police investigators, finding that a whole series of people have gone missing from this house, visit the former detective who handled the first of these incidents, in which a man named Saeki Takeo murdered his wife Kayako. Their son, Toshio, who was six years old at the time had never been found. It is the angry and growing spirit of Kayako's vengeance that infects the house. Killing Toyama, his daughter Izumi and Rika's friend Mariko, the ring of horror grows to include all who are involved. The 'Ju-on' spirit now approaches Rika as, with a shudder, she realizes the truth.
With a creative team including Hiroshi Takahashi (writer of "The Ring") and Kiyoshi Kurosawa ("Cure"), "The Grudge" builds on the success of the first two video features, "Ju-on" and "Ju-on 2", in creating an even more terrifying world for the big screen.
(37 votes)
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It is said that the owner of a now empty house murdered his wife before committing suicide. Their six-year-old son was never found after the incident. The angry and violent spirit of the dead wife spreads throughout the house, and infects it with her vengeance, and plagues the life of anyone who enters the house.
Nishina Rika is a volunteer home-care worker, who comes to the house and discovers a mysterious boy, who suddenly disappears. Nishina soon finds that she has become cursed by the house, and her relatives are quickly dying one by one. She must figure out a way to stop the killings before her own life is cut tragically short.
(26 votes)
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From The Creators Of Ringu
An eerie tale of a family who is brutally killed in their own home, leaving behind an evil spirit lurking in the shadows. When an unknowing homecare worker enters, the spirit is awakened and a terrifying chain of events begins, passing through all those who step foot in this dark house.
(26 votes)
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A volunteer home care worker, Nishina Rika (Megumi Okina), enters the home of a bed-ridden patient and discovers a strange ghostly presence lurking behind a door sealed with duct tape. Her discovery unleashes a horrible evil which baffles police investigators, who find that a whole series of people have gone missing from this particular house. Further investigation leads to Izutni Toyama (Misa Uehara), a former detective who handled the case of a man who murdered his wife in the house, but whose son was never found. But when the angry "Ju-On" spirit of vengeance that has infected the house reaches beyond its boundaries to kill Toyama and his daughter, Rika realizes that the horror is spreading. Worse, unless something is done about it, she feels she may become the angry spirit's next victim!
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(24 votes)
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Following in the footsteps of The Ring cycle, the Ju-On series of horror films has taken Japan by the throat. According to this movie, the title refers to a curse placed upon a house where violence occurred. Sure enough, we see a string of unhappy encounters in a seemingly ordinary home, where ghosts have settled in the aftermath of murder. Director Takashi Shimizu (who also directed the Hollywood remake, The Grudge) constructs the picture out of separate fragments, not told in chronological order; the haunted house is the main character, not any one of the unsuspecting human characters. Cult mavens might suggest that Shimizu uses devices and images that have already worked well in films by Hideo Nakata and Kiyoshi Kurosawa--the Japanese horror film does have its conventions. But none of that matters if you're watching this movie alone at home on a dark night. Click, click, click.... --Robert Horton
(25 votes)
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