Ju-on: The Grudge Collection [Limited Edition] [Blu-ray] [2022]

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The limited edition release for Ju-On: The Grudge Collection contains six films spread across multiple cases.

Introduction to Ju-On: The Curse by actor Takako Fuji DISC 2 & 3 – JU-ON: THE GRUDGE (4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY / BLU-RAY) Keeping the location as Tokyo, Shimizu brings westerners into the story via an American family who move into the Saeki house and via Karen Davis (Sarah Michelle Gellar), a student care worker who gets sent there when the family’s elderly matriarch is left alone. This initially mirrors the Rika storyline from the original Ju-On film but is soon wrestled into a more conventional storyline, sacrificing the pervading surrealism of the originals for a straight-ahead ghost story. New Film 'The Grudge' Takes Place at Same Time as the 2004 Version [Exclusive]". September 20, 2019. Shimizu stated in an interview that the inspiration for Ju-On came from his own personal fears as a child, and from a Japanese butoh dance group that would paint their nude bodies white and perform. Shimizu found the performance frightening and decided to "paint [his] ghosts white". He also mentioned that the rise in the number of domestic abuse cases emerging in Japan during production of his previous films gave him ideas about the origins of the story. [4]Ju-On: The Curse and Ju-On: The Curse 2 are together on a single Blu-ray disc, in Japanese audio with optional English subtitles.

I do wonder if the moment of the television going creepily glitchy in Ju-On: The Grudge is an allusion to the similar television glitch scare in Pulse! Although they probably both bear some debt to the key ur-image of Sadako climbing out of the television image in Ring! Beginning life as a short film from Takashi Shimizu entitled Katasumi and 4444444444 which he expanded to two straight to video films re-titled Ju-on: The Grudge. With help from his mentor Kiyoshi Kurosawa and in the wake of the international success of Ringu, Shimizu brought Ju-On to the big screen in 2002 for the first time.On-set legacy interviews with Takashi Shimizu, Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito, Misa Uehara and Yui Ichikawa Ju-On: A curse born when a person dies in a powerful rage. It gathers where the dead person lived and becomes a “stain”. Anyone who touches it dies and a new curse is born.”

Numerous ideas are thrown into Part 2 resulting in a less focused, more random piece which again ends on a sudden note. In 2004, Shimizu went to the US to remake the first two films, then in 2009 Ju-On was resurrected in Japan, as Mari Asato and Ryuta Miyake each made a 60-minute straight-to-DVD film to mark the 10 th anniversary of Ju-On, except neither film are directly tied to the originals – i.e. no Kayako!

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Arrow UK has announced a Blu-ray and UHD box set of the Japanese horror classic film series, The Grudge. Focussing on the only 4K disc in the set, for 2002’s ‘Ju-On: The Grudge’, that film has undergone a brand new 4K restoration from its original camera negative to produce a gorgeous native 3840 x 2160p resolution image with the original aspect ratio of 1.85:1 faithfully preserved using a 10-bit video depth, both High Dynamic Range flavours (HDR10 and Dolby Vision) and is encoded using the HEVC (H.265) codec. Sadly, 10 years on from the original shorts, Takashi Shimizu drew a line under things and decided not to return to the franchise for a third American Grudge. Instead, the reins were passed to Toby Wilkins, no stranger to Kayako himself, having directed a series of short mobile films called Tales From The Grudge as promotional material for The Grudge 2. Miyake’s entry White Ghost is closer to Shimizu’s original vision by practically rewriting it. Set at Christmas, food delivery boy Fumiya (Hiroki Suzuki) finds the dead bodies of the Isobe family in their house, the vengeful spirit this time being the ghost of the grandmother (with an unconvincing rubber mask in place of ghoulish make-up). Later, Fumiya kills his girlfriend (Mihiro) from seeing the ghost instead of her.

Ju-On: The Grudge looks gorgeous in 4K and would absolutely be worth buying on its own if that option was ever made available. It would've been nice for The Grudge 2 to get the same treatment, though I can understand why it might not have been financially worthwhile and the film still looks good in 1080p. In 2016, two of J-horror’s most notorious modern spooks collided in a spin-off film in the same way Godzilla would battle another popular kaiju. I refer of course to Sadako vs. Kayako. Whilst many will know Sadako, Kayako may not be immediately familiar despite starring in a franchise which is larger than you think – Ju-On: The Grudge! Great review. My copy arrived yesterday and it can now can go alongside The Ring and One Missed Call blu-ray boxsets, and I can finally replace the DVD. Ju-On: The Grudge may be another J-horror franchise to us gaijin but in Japan, it is a juggernaut success, continuing with 6-part Netflix series in 2020 Ju-On: Origins. This six film box set tells the first half of the story of this iconic series and is a must have for fans old and new. There's plenty of bonus features for the two Grudge films, but not many for the rest. The only real problem I have with this is the absence of the two short films that preceded the first Ju-On film and are considered canon, Katasumi and 4444444444.There are two strands to the plot. One involves a family moving into an apartment right by the Saeki house. Another involves two schoolgirls buying a VCR and finding it contains Sadako’s infamous cursed tape. As the film unfolds, these two threads tie together and lead to the unlikely but somehow perfectly sensible situation in which the titular ghosts must fight. Rewind to seven years earlier and the sinuous story of the curse is revealed, introducing a second supernatural presence to haunt one girl in particular, Akane (Akina Minami). The story takes in child abuse, suicide, murder, and a cursed audio cassette which has a habit of returning after being destroyed. Again, it is a valiant attempt to widen the purview of the grudge’s grip but some paths become well trodden for a reason. This risks diverting off into a Tomie thread but the most recent film, 2011's Tomie: Unlimited, is probably unattainable as it already had a UK Blu-ray release a couple of years ago by Bounty Films (aka the label better known for releasing The Human Centipede series in the UK). That is the only Tomie film so far released in this country and I suspect it is less to do with the work itself, or even any cache relating to Junji Ito, but more because its director was Noburo Iguchi of extreme gore-fest Machine Girl and RoboGeisha infamy! Several Ju-On print publications were published by Kadokawa in Japan, and Dark Horse Comics in North America between 2003 and 2015. Every single Ju-On film has received a novel adaptation, except for The Grudge 3.