Ju-on: The Grudge

About Ju-on: The Grudge

When a social worker is sent to check on a traumatized elderly woman whose family have moved in at the site of a notorious murder case, she unwittingly unleashes a cycle of terror that transmits via its victims.

Ju-on: The Grudge (2002) is a horror film directed by Takashi Shimizu. The film is filed under dying and death, occult, panic, and restart.

Megumi Okina takes the lead as Rika Nishina, Misa Uehara as Izumi Toyama, Yoji Tanaka as Yuji Toyama, and Misaki Itō as Hitomi Tokunaga. It runs 92 minutes and was released in October 2002.

The screenplay is by Takashi Shimizu. Produced by Nikkatsu Corporation. In the United States it streams on ARROW.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Jaws 2, and Ring make useful companions to Ju-on: The Grudge, all filed under supernatural. TMDB voters put it at 6.8 out of 10 across 1,006 votes and it carries a R rating.