Writer-director Takashi Shimizu's short, spare, achronological ghost story was intended as a low-budget, direct-to-video throwaway but instead spawned a cottage industry, including Shimizu's own English-language remake. THE GRUDGE (2004). Divided into five sections named for one of the characters whose paths intersect in a deceptively sunny, modern house in a quiet Tokyo suburb, it uses interlocking stories to explore the ever-expanding repercussions of a "
ju-on" — a curse spawned by violent death and passed from person to person. It begins with "Toshio." Schoolteacher Kobayashi (Yyrei Yanagi) visits the home of 6-year-old student Toshio Taeki (Ryota Koya...
Released:
2000
Rated:
NR
Length:
70 mins