Christopher young just when you thought that humanity had discovered every motive one person could use to justify killing another, takashi shimizu and his japanese franchise of juon movies decided to whip up a new curse with which to baffle investigators. The grudge is actually the third instalment in the fantastic juon series directed by takashi shimizu, the first two being madefortv movies, juon. Curse grudge, also known as the grudge is a japaneseamerican horror franchise created by takashi shimizu. Review while westerners wouldnt get an englishlanguage taste of the juon franchise until 2004 s the grudge, japanese audiences had their first bites in the form of a 1998 anthology movie for tv titled gakko no kaidan g school ghost story g.
The film was released in japan on march 25, 2000 and was later released on video on april 14, 2000. Horrific events in a houses past have left an evil curse that haunts each successive owner in this us remake of the 2003 japanese horror film juon. A ponderous attempt to breathe new life into a moneyminting franchise that has. Juon 2 continues the story of suzuki kyoko and shows how the curse affected everyone in her family. Owari no hajimari is a 2014 japanese supernatural horror film and the tenth installment of the juon franchise. Again the plot is very bareboned with strong focus on the nightmarish atmosphere. I was very anxious to watch the american remake, the grudge 2004, and actually watched it the day before watching this film.
The grudge 2 is a 2003 japanese horror film and a sequel to ju on. The grudge 2, and i dont think i would have accepted this job if it was going to be the same storyline. The curse 2000 in a jealous rage, a man kills his wife and son in their home, and everyone who visits falls prey to a terrible curse. The curse 2 2, also known as simply juon 2, is a 2000 japanese vcinema supernatural horror film and the second installment in the juon series. It premiered at the screamfest film festival in october of 2002, but was released in japan on january 25th, 2003. Why does the grudge have more movies than freddy, jason or. The grudge script transcript from the screenplay andor. Some of the scares still work just fine if youre watching this movie with the lights out, but the feeling of discovery, in the wake of the original juon, the ring films, and. Your complete guide for all movies released in 2004 with production notes, trailers, and stills. Although it is not perfect and sometimes confusing it is a good lowbudget horror gem and a good example of what the best japanese directtovideo films were near the turn of the millennium. Rika must get herself out of the curse before its too late. Well, i have now a complete collection of both juon and the grudge.
It was preceded by two straighttovideo movies called juon. Jealous of his wifes love for another man, a teacher, a man brutally kills his wife and young son. October 9, 2004 creepily riveting, like fingernails running down a blackboard or a fork scraping on china. It was written and directed by takashi shimizu and produced by the oz company. Produced by sam raimi, the film was directed by takashi shimizu, written by stephen susco and stars an ensemble cast that includes amber tamblyn, arielle kebbel, jennifer beals, edison chen, sarah roemer, and sarah michelle gellar. However i think that the first juon was scarier because you did not yet know what to expect. The film was produced by sam raimi and stars sarah michelle gellar, amber tamblyn, edison chen, arielle kebbel, teresa palmer, misako uno, matthew knight, and. The grudge is billed as the first haunted house simulator where accessibility and instant scares are given priority over story and game play depth. Some of my confusion is no fault of the film and can be attributed to my ignorance of japanese language and culture. Oh, to reexperience the film the grudge is exciting indeed. Oct 18, 2002 ju on streaming complet streaming en francais.
Jul 24, 2004 we dont really get to know much about the characters in juon as the film is broken up into vignettes, each character getting their own chunk of time and that time is focused on revealing the spooky details of how they became acquainted with the curse. Curse 2 circulated throughout japan, infecting all who watched with the rage of mother and son ghosts kayako and toshio. The curse curse grudge oct 21, 2010 the original grudge movie by takashi shimizu, who also directed the later japanese and hollywood remakes. The film was directed and cowritten by masayuki ochiai with takashige ichise producing and cowriting. This list may not reflect recent changes learn more. Juon 2 finally gives vengeful spirits kayako and toshio room to stretch their legs, as the curse follows pregnant screamqueen.
Thats how much i love juon you should definitely watch this scary and creepy movie. I wont usually watch a series out of order, but this is the only juon film officially and thus easily available in the u. Rika is a young woman in japan who takes care of an old woman named sachie. Though for the record i love good asian horror, and. The curse 2 2000 youtube scene from the movie ju on. The curse establishes the origins of the saeki households curse, which is later reused in both juon. Translated into the series of the grudge films in america, the concept is little more than an excuse to take a decent. In the midst of the jhorror craze of the early 2000s ignited by hideo nakatas ringu 1998 director takashi shimizu created another entry within his home countrys specific brand of horror with juon.
Searching for the son who has missed a lot of school, the teacher enters their house, only to find the dead ghost of his mother, and consequently has a heart attack and becomes a ghost himself. The curse 2 either rushed into production within a ridiculously short window. The grudge was a complete remake of juon, meaning the storyline was very similar. While she is at the house, rika finds a young boy named toshio. Nicholas pesce starts from the beginning in a new american take on japans longrunning ju on horror series. The beginning of the end is a reboot of the series. This film is really the third in the japanese juon series. The franchise began in 1998 with the release of the short films katasumi and 4444444444. I would love to see more movies in the juon series, even if the curse doesnt end. The curse 2, all directed by takashi shimizu whose marebito.
While it is often claimed that the subsequent featurelength video films juon. It also shows the story of another couple, the kitadas, living in the house and the extended. Juon is just a bunch of intertwined horror stories where some regular people stumble upon a deadly curse and then are doomed to spread it further like plague. Though the images were crude, and the narrative difficult to follow, the pair proved so transfixing that evil dead director sam raimi brought their. Sure enough, we see a string of unhappy encounters in a seemingly ordinary home, where ghosts have settled in the aftermath of murder. Thankfully the grudge 2 gives us some truly original scares along with some of the gags from the japanese juon 2. The curse ganzer film online ansehen deutsch 2000 german online download juon. Anyone who encounters a ghost killed by the curse is killed themselves and the curse is able to be spread to other areas. Its success led to a 2004 remake, which was the first film produced by sam raimis ghost house pictures. The curse 2 released directtovideo just one month after juon. This film actually calls back more to the original directtovideo juon. Probably the biggest change is the complete removal of the izumi segment. The curse from the ringu and juon series, including international remakes and adaptations. The stranger from afar arguably remains one of the most eerie japanese.
The haunted house in the tokyo suburb of nerima, where a husband killed his kid and wife, creating a curse within the residence where every visitor will be haunted to death by their poltergeists reincarnations as onryos. Juon has a slightly more convoluted origin, and started in 1998 with the shorts katasumi and 4444444444, which were part of the tv film gakko no kaidan g, and which were followed in 2000 by the vcinema direct to video films juon. The film also ties into the two short films by showing what happens to the characters in said films and how they got into those scenarios in the first place. The grudge is a japanese horror film and the third installment of a franchise that has yielded several sequels as well as several american remakes. Back in the year 2000, two unholy videotapes entitled ju on. As the curses mystery unravels, it also deepens into a puzzling metaphor. The film was written and directed by takashi shimizu. Its very slow, theres a lot of walking around in the dark and the vignettes do feel a little repetitive but it has something an atmosphere. I havent seen all four of those flicks, but i did see the first one.
While many viewers regard this film as the first in the franchise, it is actually the third film in the series with the first two films being released for home video. Kurosawa helped shimizu shepherd the juon projects to fruition. The curse 2 2000 en servidores como mega, solo lo podras conseguir en. The grudge than anything else, and people seem to have a lot of the same complaints with those as they do here. This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay andor viewings of the grudge. Back in the year 2000, two unholy videotapes entitled juon. The curse 2 are remakes of katasumi and 4444444444, the two segments are actually the foundations of juon, according to shimizu, and act almost like the true prequel of the story. Several people meet their fate because of the vengeful onryo spirits. The repeated scenes make the film understandable as a standalone, but cheats viewers who have already seen the first film. The curse 2 repeats 30 minutes of material before showing anything new. The complete longhaired jhorror icon list show list info all films including the two shorts that serve as a prequel to juon.
She eventually finds about a curse, that anyone who enters the house will be killed by the spirit of kayako. Dec 10, 2015 ju on 2 continues the story of suzuki kyoko and shows how the curse affected everyone in her family. The titular curse, juon, is one which takes on a life of its own and seeks new victims. Its actually a pretty interesting game to play to learn what they wanted to change about the original movie. Ju on streaming complet streaming complet en francais. The film was produced and cowritten by takashige ichise and directed and cowritten by masayuki ochiai.
Apr 01, 2004 ok, that complaint aside, the byline for ju on 2 was that it was supposed to explain a lot of the unanswered questions from the first movie, which frankly, over 36 minutes, simply doesnt go far enough to making any kind of sense of the originals highly convoluted storyline. The former shows us complete segments from the film, splitscreen with shimizus storyboards. A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewers death in exactly seven days. The grudge doesnt waste too much time going over the previous films plot, so try and hunt down the first two movies if you want the more complete. That doesnt, however, detract from the fact its a pretty decent picture, and one of. While we wait to see what pesce did with the concept of the grudge, were taking a look back at two of the most popular entries in the series. The grudge doesnt waste too much time going over the previous film s plot, so try and hunt down the first two movies if you want the more complete. It premiered at the screamfest film festival in october. In another press interview on if the film is a remake, takashi shimizu said. Assuming japanese tv executives did not see the first movie in advance and commission a sequel before it aired, this means juon. The grudge was the third film in takashi shimizus juon franchise.
Following in the footsteps of the ring cycle, the juon series of horror films has taken japan by the throat. The grudge 2 is a 2006 american supernatural horror film and a sequel to 2004s the grudge, directed by takashi shimizu director of the juon series and written by stephen susco. An american nurse living and working in tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim. In juon the izumi segment takes place roughly 5 years after the main events of the film, and it presents some issues as far as the narrative goes. Shimizu attended the film school of tokyo, where he studied under kiyoshi kurosawa.
The 2002 film was the first entry to go to theaters. Jika agan suka dengan film ini silahkan suport admin agar terus update film setiap hari dengan cara bookmark filmgan. An englishlanguage remake of the japanese horror thriller juon. The film was written and directed by takashi shimizu and is divided in six parts, chronicling the experiences of tenants of a cursed house where a man, takeo saeki takashi matsuyama killed his wife, kayako takako fuji, and his son, toshio ryota koyama, in a jealous rage. The curse 2000 en servidores como mega, solo lo podras conseguir en.
The curse is one of those movies you watch, you enjoy, and when its over, you then read about the plot on wikipedia and try to figure out what the hell you just watched i have seen, but have yet to write about, the grudge, the most familiar film of the juon series. The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 228 total. The grudge 2 is a 2006 supernatural horror film and a sequel to the 2004 film, the grudge. The curse 2000 german stream online anschauen kinox, film hd stream deutsch kostenlos online schauen juon.
With obvious homages to ring, the grudge could be accused of an element of plagiarism. This comes as a breath of fresh air after the first american grudge film. The grudge 2 2003 subtitle indonesia dengan pilihan server download tercepat. The grudge 2 theatrical, and now the proposed hollywood remake as well, which is supposed to be going by the name the grudge, although i myself would have been tempted to name it the curse simply to distinguish it from all the others, and also because im running out of. According to this movie, the title refers to a curse placed upon a house where violence occurred. Wikimedia commons has media related to japanese horror films. Finally, the the grudge script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the american remake of juon. Ju on 2 japanese horror full movie english subtitles. Frankly, unless youve been living under a rock for a year or so, youll know that theres been a hell of a lot of fuss surrounding the 20022003 remakes of two original tv movies, ju on aka the grudge or the curse, and its followup, ju on 2. Pregnant or not, the idea of going with a small film crew to the very haunted house where the unpleasantness of the original took place is probably not a healthy idea.
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