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ju - on: white ghost / black ghost” is now available on bluray per well go usa which includes both films .
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film: disc: ju - on white ghost / black ghost is out now and available from the den of geek store .
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white ghost refers to the ghost of an old lady, with black referring to the ju - on rouge fukie. in research “ju - on: white ghost / black ghost” was created “in honor of the tenth anniversary of the ju - on series” it does honor its original with a brief cameo appearance by ghost “toshio saeki”, though it is an original story of its own accord giving viewers more of what they expect to see .
ju - on: white ghost / black ghost is a combined release under well go usa that brings together the 2 segments “ju - on: white ghost” and “ju - on: black ghost” under one package. the films base their foundation on the mythology of the ju - on movies which primarily are set upon the basis of a rogue revengeful spirit. at start we are told that a ju - on curse arrives when someone dies in a powerful rage. this death results in a “stain” which if touched, begins a new curse .
white ghost: akina minami, hiroki suzuki, ichirota miyakawa. black ghost: ai kago, koji seto, yuri nakamura .
now on to ju - on: black ghost (or girl in black, the original title) it too is 61 minutes long. directed by mari asato the plot of black ghost is a bit convoluted and confusing. it never goes on to explain why the grudge spirit in this film is all in black. like the basketball playing grandma in the first film, we never find out why this black apparition is terrifying or why she’s even there .
the final ju - on film to date, black ghost touches upon a similar theme to ju - on: the grudge 2 with the fears surrounding pregnancy and birth but does a flip and reintroduces some heavy handed paranormal mumbo jumbo from ju - on: the curse .
i disagree joe, i think you should watch the entire series here' s a list in order of the entire thing. 1. katasumi 2. 4444444 3. ju - on the curse 4. ju - on the curse 2 5. ju - on the grudge 6. ju - on the grudge 2 7. ju - on white ghost 8. ju - on black ghost 9. the grudge 10. tales from the grudge 11. the grudge 2 12. the grudge 3 13. ju - on the grudge haunted house simulator
originally released as
ju - on: shiroi rôjo
and
ju - on: kuroi rôjo
in japan .
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not a patch on the other ju - on but still worth owning for your collection .
creepy movie. creepy white ghost with even creepier black ghost. if you stick with it you' ll really really enjoy it. i loved it !
ju - on: white ghost / black ghost (呪怨: 白い老女 ju - on: shiroi rōjo, and 呪怨: 黒い少女 ju - on: kuroi shōjo) are two horror films released in honor of the tenth anniversary of the ju - on series, marking the fifth and sixth installments in the franchise, respectively. in white ghost, the spiteful ghosts of an abused girl and her grandmother, both mercilessly murdered, return to haunt and take victims under their grudge. in black ghost the grudge of an unborn being spreads from a young girl to herself and everyone around her. white ghost is produced, written and directed by ryuta miyake, and black ghost by mari asato. takashi shimizu worked as a supervising producer for both films .
ju - on: white ghost tells the story of senior high school student arkane whose strong esp power induces him into seeing mirai, the tragic ghost of an old school friend. ju - on: black ghost tells the chilling story of a young woman called fukie who discovers that she’s carrying an unborn ‘grudge’, which vengefully curses all those around her
@ snowangel the grudge films aren' t a part of the ju - on series, hence why they' re called the grudge films, so if you want to watch the
entire thing
you can watch the 7 ju - on films that exist (+ the prequel short). 0. 5) katasumi & 4444444444 1) ju - on: the curse 2) ju - on: the curse 2 3) ju - on: the grudge (this one got a remake) 4) ju - on: the grudge 2 5) ju - on: white ghost 6) ju - on: black ghost 7) ju - on: the beginning of the end the grudge series is very good also, but if you didn' t like the first one don' t watch the rest .
things get really weird when he encounters her on the stairs again, leading him to venture into her apartment and fall victim to a black ghost .
chills to beat summer heat, part two – ju - on: white ghost (shiroi rôjo) (horrorboom. com )
ju - on: white ghost tells the story of senior high school student arkane whose strong esp power induces him into seeing mirai, the tragic ghost of an old school friend. ju - on: black ghost tells the chilling story of a young woman called fukie who discovers that she' s carrying an unborn' grudge', which vengefully curses all those around her .
ju - on: white ghost tells the story of senior high school student arkane, whose strong esp power induces him into seeing mirai, the ghost of an old school friend. ju - on: black ghost tells the chilling story of a young woman called fukie who discovers that she' s carrying an unborn' grudge', which vengefully curses all those around her .
this franchise scares the * &% out of me but this one was actually interesting. white ghost was freaky but the black ghost was less spooky and kinda concluded the cycle of ju - on / grudge, meaning explained the story behind these 6 movies .
the film’s credits do give a grudging (sorry) nod to shimzu as the ju - on creator with a ‘based on characters created by’ tag. both the ju - on’s were released simultaneously on the tenth anniversary of the original ju - on’s as a sort of ‘honour’ to shimzu and his films .
white ghost: cinematography, koji kanaya; editor, yoshifumi fukazawa; music, gary ashiya. black ghost: cinematography, shin hayasaka; editor, yoshifumi fukazawa; music, gary ashiya .
the original 2000
ju - on
and its 2000
ju - on 2
sequel were direct - to - video releases that became a surprise hit in japan .
well actually, one edition of the third ju - on film (ju - on: the grudge) was re - titled
the grudge
for the uk dvd release only, yet it' s sequel was still titled ju - on: the grudge 2 in the uk and simply ju - on 2 in the us. every single one of the films was released as
ju - on :
+ subtitle in america. and i think they retitled the third ju - on from simply
ju - on
to
ju - on: the grudge
after the remake came out but i' m not entirely certain :) it' s more accurate to just refer to the japanese franchise as ju - on and the american one as the grudge, to avoid confusion .
chikako isomura played sachie in the original ju - on: the grudge (2002) .
suffice to say, i was most surprised to find that ju - on was, in fact, not even the first grudge film. ju - on and ju - on 2 (released in 2000), were both released in japan and ran for around 70 minutes each .
in 2003, director takashi shimizu along with mentor kiyoshi kurosawa released theatrical versions titled ju - on: the grudge and ju - on: the grudge 2. that same year, 2003, rights were sold to film a u. s. remake of ju - on: the grudge .
ju - on black and white ghost are two 60 - minute movies that were created to celebrate ju - on' s anniversary. it is the first time takashi shimizu wasn' t attached to a ju - on movie and also the first ones not to feature kayako and toshio. it is a fun flick in the same format of the other movies, a non - linear storyline about an evil ghost. it builds up really well, and the last 10 minutes or so are really messed up. it was a pleasant surprise .
i watched this right after watching' white ghost' and this is definitely the more disappointing of the two. the main problem is that the black ghost is almost never actually in it, and compared to the old lady white ghost, the actress just doesn' t have the screen presence to make it scary .
ju - on: white ghost / black ghost (jwgbg for short) jwgbg is a smart horror thriller that tells its story in almost anthology - like segments (called anachronistic order). these segments are all a part of the main story working in reverse as a narrative and then separated by chapters (slide - titled with characters names) .
both films are very dour in their approach, offering little in the way of light relief; though the cab driver from both films does offer some moments that will make the corner of your mouth twitch. neither could be classed as truly scary, though ju - on black ghost comes closest to the feel of the original ju - on film, delivering a strong and stylish story .
adopting a far more accessible and well paced method of storytelling, where the past is played out in line with the present, ju - on black ghost is more satisfying and benefits greatly from a more substantial narrative and the use of more developed characters to tell an interesting story .
worst of the ju - on films thus far. there' s a nice bit of body horror near the end, and the twist is pretty good, but for the most part black ghost is just uninteresting and difficult to follow. also, much like its predecessor, the change - up in the ghost' s form is more bland than it is shocking .
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the cursed tape in white ghost resembles the cursed tape in ringu / the ring .
it' s a very interesting movie! how each character was connected by this grudge. first in the white ghost then you go to the black ghost different characters in each one they do show a glimpse of the little boy that sounds like a cat from ju - on and from the us movie grudge. i am happy i made this purchase! this movie is japanese audio only with english subtitles .
ju - on: white ghost (originally titled ju - on old lady in white) is directed by ryûta miyake. i may be a bit obtuse, but after watching this film twice, i cannot for the life of me understand several things about the film. why, for instance, is the ghost a ‘little old lady’ who carries a basketball with her everywhere? why is that considered terrifying by those who meet her? what connection does this little old lady ghost have with the school girl in the yellow hat ?
the wii game ju - on: the grudge was first screened during this films' press release. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] .
unlike its companion piece white ghost, mari asato' s black ghost never manages to transcend the student film - esque aesthetic that comes with such a limited budget. the vignette - based narrative is brutally dull and thoroughly uninteresting to say the least. the technical aspects of the scares are handled better than white ghost, but when they' re not tethered to any sort of compelling story, it doesn' t really matter. these films were an interesting idea, but you' re best off just watching white ghost .
death of a ghost hunter (2007): small budget, big scares (mikesfilmtalk. com )
it was announced a few weeks back that ghost house pictures and good universe will relaunch the grudge franchise with midnight meat train scribe jeff buhler to draft the reboot. this will be the second time they do so, if you count the japanese remake (ju - on: the grudge is a remake of the made - for - tv horror movie, ju - on) .
the. grudge. old. lady. in. white [ ju - on. shiroi. rjo ] 2009 [ 592 x 320 h264 ]
to celebrate ten years of ju - on, 4digital media have released this pair of films on a single disc, returning to the shorter running time and offering two tales that contrast in more than their title .
the final new films in the explosively popular ju - on (the grudge) franchise, made in cooperation with the original films' creator takashi shimizu .
an interview with buhler popped up where he talked about his starting point for the new ju - on film, and how he plans to approach it .
don' t watch the grudge you' re way better of watching the excellent and very creepy ju - on, you won' t be dissapointed .
when i first heard they were making another ju on movie to mark the 10 year anniversary, i have to admit, i thought it would be bad. then i realised they were making 2 movies, which honestly, sounded just terrible. i bought it to give it a go and i was very pleasently surprised. while obviously its not superior to the original, its still a nicely told and polished production. each movie is an hour long but there are still plenty of shocks and suspense to keep you watching. this is why i prefer asian horror to hollywood, you don' t need tonnes of blood to make a good movie. white ghost just edges out black ghost for me as the storyline is more hard hitting but black ghost appears to be more faithful to the original ju on. if you' re still wondering whether to buy it or not, i say just buy it. it' s only a fiver! !
ju - on was typical for most asian movies of it' s type. innocent people being killed for no other reason than being associated with the cursed house .
ju - on: black ghost nurse yuko is left in charge of a young girl called fukie, and begins to experience strange things. medical examinations reveal that there is a' cyst' in fukie' s body. the cyst is actually an unborn one that is full of hatred for mankind and curses everyone around her. yuko' s neighbour is taken by a girl in black, and fukie' s father commits a murder and goes insane. fukie' s mother has to rely on the special psychic powers of fukie' s younger sister to help drive out the evil spirit. however, the exorcism eventually fails, and the worst grudge yet begins .
akane begins seeing visions of a female ghost wearing the same yellow hat and red satchel she wore as a school child .
it is an interesting film. scary in the right places and utilizing the slow build - up and disjointed segments that shimzu used so well in his films. it is a homage and as such does not rely on blazing originality to make it’s point. at 61 minutes it is better to watch this one with it’s ‘sister’ film ju - on: black ghost to give you a more ‘cinematic’ feeling when you’re done rather than the’special of the week’ feeling that a film just over an hour long leaves you with .
as i am sitting here finishing this article, i have been playing the white ghost on the telly. i have decided that the basketball playing grandma was much scarier when she was alive .
black ghost (when compared to white ghost) seems to be viewed as the lesser of the two, and i can see why. however i didn’t think it was that bad, although if i had to choose it would be white ghost. just like white ghost, this kicks off with the ending, as the narrative moves between characters, differing viewpoints and timelines. nurse yuko is left in charge of a young girl named fukie, and begins to experience strange occurrences. a medical examination reveals that she has developed a cyst in her body. the hatred of an unborn child is feeding off the girl, and cursing the people around her. this is…
i really liked this when i first saw it on netflix. same twists and turns that i love with the asian style of horror. if you like the ju - on movies, this one is quite different but not in a bad way. new characters and storyline made this stand apart from the original ju - on, but same suspense and fear as the originals. i watched it twice the day i got it. love it !
these films are different from the other ju - on films, as they mainly focuse on the yokota and isobe families and get away from the saeki family and their house. the only members of the saeki family who appeared in these films are toshio and mar .
thematically, the method of the ju - on curse also seems to have shifted, from ghosts killing people, to people killing people, with some unwelcome hints of incestuous paedophilia thrown in .
i just viewed the ju - on: white ghost. some spoilers ahead. remember miho isobe inspecting the kitchen and found a crumpled picture of a family of three. although the family did not look as saekis at the first glance; they are pictured almost similar as they were portrayed in the other ju - on movies. this leads me to conclude that this house may belong to saekis, and the murders did happen in that house. that' s why it is mentioned that the isobes acquired the house at a cheap price .
the way all the previous films intertwined their characters' lives... and deaths. this is scarier, better shot and better paced, but also strays further from the ju - on mythos into
on his request, the sensitive sister of a real estate agent visits a house he intends to put on sell, only to cross paths with its resident curse .
i love this movie the same reason why some others might hate it: it' s different. sure, it doesn' t have our lovely kayako (though toshio' s guest appearance is a different story), but it' s a new slate. people have complained about how predictable ju - on has become, but with old lady in white and girl in black, there are some new twists .
my second ju - on movie for the night. this is the second of the films that were produced in honour of the tenth anniversary of the original ju - on movie. this one is directed by mari asato and the overall theme is the same although done in a slightly different way. the one with the grudge this time is an unborn twin that resides inside the other twin. i believe the term is fetus in fetu .
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last year, to mark the tenth anniversary of the' series', two more ju - on films appeared, produced the same way as the first two, by shooting cheaply on location and on video. with two different directors, the video - look distances these from shimizu' s current movie series. he' s still promising a third grudge movie for japan, not to be confused with the american
the 2004 pic starred sarah michelle gellar, cost around $ 10 million, grossed $ 187 million worldwide and hatched a sequel. it was based on the japanese horror thriller ju - on by takashi shimizu. gellar played a nurse in tokyo who was afflicted by a curse that created uncontrollable rage and was pretty much fatal .
ok i am watching white ghost as i am typing this and i have jumped about 4 times. it is seriously jumpy! so far, the story line is actually ok, is linking quite well with the original ju - on' s but not too much to make it part of the sequel. i like actually. i like a lot! terrifying though, don' t watch alone at night !
i didn' t like this one as much as white ghost. i thought the story was more confusing and had to look at the plot on wikipedia afterwards to clear things up. the film appeared to drag aswell, which is not a good thing when you consider…
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following the events of ju - on: the beginning of the end, mai, the older sister of elementary schoolteacher yui shono, goes to look for her sister, who disappeared after a year while working... see full summary »
the grudge (ju - on) was one of the films that, for me, kicked off my interest in japanese horror films. along with the ring, it was the first time in years i' d actually found myself creeped out by horror films and i voraciously devoured many of the stranger offerings that were available on the market .
the haunted stomach body horror moment was the only real thing to stay with me on this one .
notable moment: when the grandma ghost charges at the girl in the bathroom. this really comes out of nowhere and catches the viewer off guard. although, it is a cheap scare .
this series isn' t called
the grudge
, as you wrote several times in this review. it' s called
ju - on
. the grudge is the title of the american series, and you shouldn' t even lump them together !
in this seventh installment of the ju - on franchise, a school teacher visits the home of a boy who' s been absent from school for a long period of time, unaware of the horrific tragedy which occurred in the boy' s household many years ago .
though after spending time with the entire movie and its sister film “black ghost”, i found that all stems from a girl named fukie who is born with a rare condition called “cystoma”. cystoma is what they call it when a twin is present inside the body feeding off the host (essentially born “into” the body rather than arriving in typical fashion). the cystoma becomes a jealous unborn spirit that sabotages the host and releases the initial ju - on of this story. when fukie becomes ill, she is put under the care of a local hospital. the mother invites a woman named mariko who as a specialist is taxed with having to kill the unwanted spirit within fukie. though this backfires and set the who mess into play .
the plot of this film revolves around a cyst found in a young girl (fukie) that is the result of her ingesting her unborn twin while in her mother’s uterus. sound familiar? if it does, it’s not because it was ever used as a plot device in any of the original ju - on films .
i’ve tried finding the original japanese ju - on films here, but haven’t had much luck on netflix or anything. i’d imagine they’re worth purchasing though. i’ve mentioned before that i thought the us version of the grudge was the scariest ‘hollywood’ film i’d seen in a really long time, and that noise she makes was a ongoing scare tactic in our house for many years afterwards. does the us version even hold a light to the original japanese versions ?
in summary, i enjoyed the film more for its writing than for actual scares. it doesn’t get as crazy as those “tomio” films but still manages to feel like a part of the whole ju - on franchise. give it whirl at least once. it’s worth checking out and provides a well thought out story to experience .
as their curse spreads on all around, the ghosts find their chance to live once again through the pregnancy of a cursed woman .
easier to follow than white ghost but still no less of a mess. i found myself laughing like an idiot through some scenes, but this will happen when the little girls name sounds like
fuck yeah
( it' s fukie) .
filme fraco ao contrário do seu irmão white ghost. todo o trabalho técnico em volta do filme é muito ruim. a coisa mais legal do filme é a cena final, que apesar de maneira, pode ficar esquecida por conta das grandes falhas do filme .
got mine today and it will not play on my dvds player. may return it but it' s a hassle. very disappointed: (
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jwgbg takes advantage of its segmented approach by introducing new stories and historical events all tied together to the initial ju - on event. the chapters are named accordingly under character names such as “akane”, “mirai”, “isobe”, and “chiho”. in our journey we get a hefty helping of murder, haunting, terror, incest, revenge, betrayal, possession and of course…. . supernatural .
how many stories can we fit into sixty minutes? a delivery driver delivers a christmas cake to a house, a father sees his daughter off to school and discovers something horrific on his backseat, akane, a student, uses a ouija board, a young family move into a house, the delivery driver and his girlfriend celebrate christmas, a young school girl falls victim to her predatory uncle, a policeman learns of a family massacre and a voice on a tape that won' t be destroyed, a family contend with failure and disappointment revealing the events that lead up to the hanging at the start of the film before we discover the nature of the ju - on and its connection to akane .
s, with the narratives shifting back and forth in time, changing with each cut - to - black chapter break. but these new stories aren' t closely linked to the old ones. there' s a completely new house and i was disappointed that (almost) none of the regular characters appear to link it all back to the original' grudge' .
although released separately in japan, these are wisely being sold as a double - bill on dvd in the uk, as both films last barely an hour .
i have opted to review both these ‘films’ together as their total running time apiece is 61 minutes, hardly the length of your run - of - the - mill movie. despite their title’s making use of the ju - on phrase that had been developed by film auteur takashi shimzu, these films have nothing to do with the original films that shot shimzu to such heights of popularity in the horror world .
ju - on: white ghost a son brutally and methodically murders all five of his family members after failing the bar exam. he then hangs himself. at the moment of his death, he made a cassette tape recording in which he can be heard saying' i' ll go, i' ll go soon...'. on the same tape can be heard the eerie sound of a young girl' s voice. it is the voice of mirai, who was a friend of akane, whilst at primary school. mirai was a victim of the mass family slaughter incident. akane, who is now a senior high school student, has had a strong esp power since childhood. suddenly one day mirai appears in front of her, wearing the yellow cap and red backpack of a primary school student. the terror is just about to begin ...
the supernatural is a given as the dead and the living are intertwined as you might expect from any asian ghost movie. the twists and cleverness here is a firm storyline that answers questions as it moves forward. fx are mostly minimal but still effective enough for providing a good haunting kind of experience .
okay, mike. so we’re sorta goin backwards here! lol i couldn’t find juon: the curse 1 or 2, apparently because they were never released in the states. at the moment, i’m really not up for importing and learning japanese; maybe i will be ten minutes from now. 🙂 anyway, we checked out juon: white ghost & black ghost, as they were on netflix, and though there were some eerie scenes and the like, i think you’re right. i remember the us grudge with gellar being a lot freakier, and the grandma was definitely scarier when she was alive. xd still, i think we’ve all definitely seen worse. i’m still going to try the next two juon films, the japanese grudges, but is there anything else you’d recommend that’s just really freaky that we should look for? gotta tell you up front, gore - scares aren’t very scary for us; we tear ’em apart in most cases. well, at least if the film is only relying on them, and nothing else. but if you know of anything really creepy atmospheric films, (bump in the night types) even if they happen to be gory, let me know! netfliix is loaded with horror films right now, but i’d rather go to an expert than trust a cover. 🙂
we' re treated to a series of short chapters filling out the sixty minute run time. some of these short moments feel like they are part of the story, others feel like they don' t make much sense. they all feature an evil, dead embodiment of the grudge, in the form of a granny with a basketball, accompanied by a schoolgirl and lots of black hair .
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the stories are creepy. first and foremost i guess that what matters in a horror movie. this takes several different experiences of different people with their own ju - on ghost. it wasn' t clear that' s what it was at first which was a little confusing when the stories would change suddenly and in the end i think they try to intertwine at least a couple of the stories but it was a little confusing after just one watch. probably after a few viewings it would be clearer, which is something i' ve found with some japanese horrors. it' s sort of obvious that they used some kind of mask to make each and every ghost look like the classic grudge lady ghost with a little bit of wrinkles? they look like. the same but different. that ruined it a little for me but not enough to not make this creepy. the classic grudge noise is back and just as foreboding as ever. the quality of the movie seems like it was a tv movie or something but, it' s the acting that makes this good and the japanese can act horror. i would recommend getting this if you' re willing to watch it a few times and if you can get it cheap. i don' t think it' s worth paying a lot of money for but it' s certainly worth a look .
the story which is written by director ryûta miyake and director mari asato is laid out in pieces that require the viewer to sit thru all of them to get the entire story (much like a tv series might). the segments are filled with plenty of haunts and creepy spirits keeping the whole shebang within the tradition of other ju - on releases. really, combining the 2 under 1 re - release is almost “essential” to a solid viewing experience for this united release .
i realy in to asian horror films because they put you on the edge of your chair its the sounds and acting but this one is very disapointing fake and cheap looking so think twice ...
even tho
white ghost
does provide some very, but very tensioned moments, i found it hard to take it seriously. i mean, after watching it, it' s rather difficult to say that this one is worthy of a grade over 6, cause let' s face it, for a cheesy asian fun, it does the job, but if you in for some real scares with a over the top plot and development ,
white ghost
looks like a cartoon! again, don' t get me wrong, dunno how, but when i saw it, it scared me out of my mind, cause the execution is very good, but if they were able to put it on screen like this, why didn' t they try harder on the script part? get a decent idea, make use of it, and put your name up there, with the rest of asia' s greater horrors! they did everything better than most such films, again, the plot is what killed it for me. check it out and you' ll see what i' m talking about! cheers !
however, if you' re just getting into japanese horror (shame on you !), you' ll probably be better starting with the earlier films and renting this one at a much later date .
at a certain house, a son brutally and methodically murders all five of his family members after failing the bar exam. he then hangs himself, leaving behind a cassette recorder at the scene on which he can be heard saying, “go… go now. ” in unison with a strange female voice. that voice belongs to a victim of the family massacre, the elementary school best friend of teenager akane (akina minami). when the two were young they wore yellow hats and red satchels to school. akane, who has a strong sense of the supernatural, soon begins seeing visions of a female ghost wearing a yellow hat and red satchel .
other distractions include the christmas setting which has zero bearing on the story. it doesn' t help that the characters put candles on their christmas cake and blow them out as if making a birthday wish. why? now i' m used to characters in horror movies acting illogically, but several of the characters' motivations are quite puzzling. it' s especially hard to believe any couple would start french - kissing just after one of them has puked !
having said that, my spelling is usually very attentive. my earlier spelling of' sayako' probably came from a subtitled translation on a chinese dvd, because i had no other english reference. but yes, kayako it is !
welcome to my not so serious blog. i am just another dork on the internet who has watched far, far too many movies, and i' ve decided to share my thoughts on whatever i come across, with emphasis on horror and asian cinema. i don' t present myself as a pretentious critic and write my reviews in the way i speak in person... assuming you can tolerate my brand of humor. i try to be as fair and unbiased as possible and have even broken down the way i score if you want to consult that list. take a look around, i' m sure you will find a new movie to watch as i' m at 700 posts and counting !
a simple fusion. both a ghost story and a slasher, with very little sfx and a basic story. it' s predictable, but strangely engaging. the movie explains itself first, how sometimes someone can die with such hate and anger that a powerful curse is born. all who encounter this curse are doomed. it' s that simple. best watched alone. only an hour long, with some real suspense and a creepy atmosphere along with a few jump scares .
shot in an actual house in the suburbs of tokyo, takashi shimizu' s first four films turned everyday surroundings into nightmares. the attic, the landing, windows, cupboards and stairs all became terrifying locations for full - on scary, haunting, gory terror .
this was not what i was expecting, to slow and relied on the name of other films that are far superior. creaking, grasping voices do not make a horror. found myself expecting a film like the grudge, the ring and was let down. dissapointed .
i make that eight stories in sixty minutes! that' s one story, on average, every seven and a half minutes. it' s achievable in the hands of a talented filmmaker. sadly ryuta miyake isn' t the director or writer for the job .
the film will also be home to “ new characters, new ghost, and a new mythology, ” he adds. “ i’m not really at a liberty to say anything more than that for obvious reasons, as we are still in the scripting process. i think letting fans of the original series know that we are not going back to (the character of) kayako and trying to mine what’s already been mined is important (though). we are still very early in the process. ”
a christmas delivery boy is startled when he arrives at a house that appears to be haunted by the murdered spirits of the family that resided there previously. a ghostly residual repeats her last comments before being brutally murdered. a small girl is also found beheaded on her bed .
kat, i 'm referring to the japanese naming convention. they sold the grudge films overseas under that name, long before the us remake. i refer to the films as the grudge to tell them apart from the earlier made - on - video films that are still called juon .
final verdict? don’t go out of your way to find these films, they’re not worth the effort. if you find them ‘accidentally’ like i did (live streaming on lovefilm) go ahead and watch them. they do have a certain novelty value. but if you want ‘real’ scares ?
all the original grudges are excellent. the 1st two (straight to video) are hard to track down. we found our copies on urltoken which has since gone out of business. you might try ebay? the first two are juon the curse instead of grudge. good luck in your hunt! 🙂
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starting with an eerily silent hanging in a wood, a tape recorder clicks off and hair appears out of a hold - all style bag. things are looking up for the first film on the disc. sadly, this film seems to have been made the wrong way round with the build up at the start and the end, leaving a rather lacklustre middle .
there are a lot j - horror out there at the moment. 2004 - 6 seemed to be the years of mass production. i’ll be reviewing some of them very soon. just on the top of my head, infection (2004) is a corker and a lot easier to find than the first 2 grudge’s. let me know how you make out. 😀
, the jumpy scares kick in quickly after a shaky (camerawork) start. but it tries too hard and too often to make us jump, resulting in a series of hit and miss scares. the new' face' of the grudge verges on the humorous because she keeps popping up repeatedly... and carrying a basketball. basketballs have never been scary, still aren' t .
the story began as a mystery centred on a suburban house. everyone who visited the house was scared to death - if they left the house before they died, their own homes would become similarly cursed. as the story leapt forwards and backwards in time, following different visitors and their families, a picture emerged of the original events that sparked off the curse, as well as tracking how far it had spread .
the isobe family, including daughter mirai and her uncle atsushi, have moved to matsuoka house. atsushi is possessed by a spirit from a mirror, distances himself from the others, and starts to abuse mirai. mirai' s sensitive friend and classmate, hajime' s daughter, akane, gives her bear keychain as gift, and visits her one day, but is kicked out by atsushi. toshio appears in the cortyard and
plays
with mirai' s toy dog. two days before christmas atsushi deliberately fails his tests. the night before christmas he kills his whole family, decapitates mirai with a saw, takes her head, places it in a bag, and leaves the house. next day, he catches hajime' s taxi while a delivery boy fumiya hajimoto delivers a cake to the family' s house, and is tormented by the ghosts. atsushi comes to a forest where he records his last words with mirai on a tape and hangs himself. later, hajime drives akane to school, and is killed by mirai. that evening, fumiya is comforted by detective yasukawa at a police station and reunited with his girlfriend, chiho. they celebrate christmas eve in their apartment when haru appears and forces fumiya to kill chiho by stabbing her with a knife. years later, akane is playing kokkuri with her friends, mayumi and yuka, and mayumi suggests calling hajime. the board spells
mirai
. akane sees mirai, and runs out of class, leaving her friends puzzled. while mayumi goes back to the class to grab her things, yuka goes to the restroom and is killed by haru. walking near the former isobe household, akane remembers her last visit to mirai, and regrets that she didn' t helped her then. akane finally comes back home, and meets mirai, who returns her keychain as a keepsake and disappears .
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after losing her child at birth, the dark horror of the grudge begins growing within her .
jermaine fowler and omari hardwick of sorry to bother you take us back in time to the worst jobs of their careers .
a teacher visits the house of one of his students after the boy goes missing, only to have a horrifying excuse for his absence from school .
a mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides .
a young japanese woman who holds the key to stopping the evil spirit of kayako, travels to the haunted chicago apartment from the sequel, to stop the curse of kayako once and for all .
in this prequel to ring, a young sadako becomes an actress in hopes of escaping her troubled past. but strange visions and terrifying powers begin to manifest ...
three interwoven stories about a terrible curse. a young woman encounters a malevolent supernatural force while searching for her missing sister in tokyo; a mean high school prank goes horribly wrong; a woman with a deadly secret moves into a chicago apartment building .
reiko takes yoichi into hiding when her son begins to display frightening powers. meanwhile, mai takano and the authorities begin a desperate search for them, as the mysterious ring curse spreads ...
fuko ando (miori takimoto) is a 24 - years - old graduate student in psychology. she is tasked to take care of her 4 - year - old niece. soon, mysterious events occur around her niece. she then... see full summary »
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is divided into seven segments in the following order: tetsuya (徹也), yuko (裕子), ayano (綾乃), fukie (芙季絵), yokota (横田), mariko (真理子), and kiwako (季和子) .
is divided into eight segments in the following order: fumiya (文哉), kashiwagi (柏木), akane (あかね), isobe (磯部), chiho (千穂), mirai (未来), yasukawa (安川), and atsushi (篤) .
akiko hoshino and shūsei uto attended the press release as the ghosts themselves, haru and toshio respectivelly. [ 1 ]
up, left to right: game developer yoshihara, directors mari asato and miyake ryuta, shimizu and ichinoze. down, left to right: yuri nakamura, koji seto, akina minami and hiroki suzuki
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a nurse named yuko (ai kago) has a strange experience while taking care of a girl named fukie. test results show a cyst inside fukie’s body, but that cyst is actually the leftover grudge from a baby who was unable to be born. the cyst’s grudge spreads to fukie and everyone around her. soon fukie’s father goes mad and commits murder. fukie’s sister mariko has special spiritual power, and together with their mother they have some success driving out the evil spirit. but the worst of the grudge is yet to come .
i don' t usually watch the grudges series because they' re not that scary. but i can' t resist seto koji... .
this was pretty scary with surround sound as the grudge nosie sounded like it was coming from behind me and was very scary. this is pretty scary !
i' m going to watch this because i want to see seto koji again. ,
i' ve watched almost all
the grudge
films and it scared me badly! :) ) i' m so happy it' s coming with a new one: d (inhope it' s good. ; p )
ju-on : black ghost ( 呪怨 : 黒い少女 ju-on : kuroi shōjo , lit . " ju-on : black young girl " ) is a 2009 japanese supernatural horror film produced in honour of the tenth anniversary of the ju-on series . like most films in the franchise , black ghost is told through anachronistic order , with each vignettes titled after a character central to the story . the sequel revolves around a hospitalized young girl who discovers that a cyst is found in her body , which is actually the physical remnant of her unborn twin . 
ju-on: black ghost (呪怨: 黒い少女 ju-on: kuroi shōjo, lit. " ju-on: black young girl ") is a 2009 japanese supernatural horror film produced in honour of the tenth anniversary of the ju-on series. like most films in the franchise, black ghost is told through anachronistic order, with each vignettes titled after a character central to the story. the sequel revolves around a hospitalized young girl who discovers that a cyst is found in her body, which is actually the physical remnant of her unborn twin.
ju-on: black ghost (呪怨: 黒い少女 ju-on: kuroi shōjo, lit. " ju-on: black young girl ") is a 2009 japanese supernatural horror film produced in honour of the tenth anniversary of the ju-on series. like most films in the franchise, black ghost is told through anachronistic order, with each vignettes titled after a character central to the story. the sequel revolves around a hospitalized young girl who discovers that a cyst is found in her body, which is actually the physical remnant of her unborn twin.