Takashi Shimizu's direct-to-video follow-up to JU-ON: THE CURSE was available a few months after the first film, and much of its brief running time in taken up by footage from the original. JU-ON 2's first 20 minutes recaps the story of Kayako Saeki (Takako Fuji), whose obsession with former college classmate Shunsuke Kobayashi (Yurie Yanagi), now her six-year-old son Toshio's (Ryota Koyama) teacher, led her insanely jealous husband (Takashi Matsuyama) to murder her, their little boy and Kobayashi's pregnant wife (Yuue). Their deaths give birth to the "ju-on" (curse) that envelops the Saeki's home — an incongruously sunny, modern suburban house — and taints every su...
Released:
2000
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins