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Dominican Rep. Ju-on: The Grudge
- Original title
- Ju-on: The Grudgeaka
- AKA
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- The Grudge
- Year
- 2002
- Running time
- 92 min.
- Country
Japan- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Megumi Okina
Misaki Ito
Misa Uehara
Yui Ichikawa
Kanji Tsuda- Kayoko Shibata
Yoji Tanaka
Yoshiyuki Morishita
Hideo Sakaki
Takashi Matsuyama- Takako Fuji
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Horror | J-Horror. Supernatural. Ghosts. Haunted Houses. Cult movie. Remake
- Movie Groups
- Ju-on (The Grudge)
- Synopsis
- 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.
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 (From amazon.com)- Rankings Position
- Critics' reviews
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"Divided into chapters, the film jumps around in time, which means that we get to observe Shimizu's utter failure to develop his characters from endless narrative angles."
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"The film's repetitious, episodic structure seems to unnecessarily alleviate the building tension, making it a far less frightening film than it might have been."
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"Director Takashi Shimizu chooses cruel psychological suspense over gore and succeeds in spinning a minimal plot into a panorama of malice."
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"Both too obvious and needlessly complicated, Ju-On juggles several non-chronological chapters based on different characters, ensuring that none of the corpses-to-be make much of an impression"
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- Ranking Lists Position
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- 42 My Favorite Horror Movies (340)
- 63 My Top 10 Movies from 2002 (36)
- 68 My Favorite Japanese Movies (32)
- 70 My Favorite Asian Movies (66)
- 93 My Top 10 Movies from 2003 (19)
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