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Ju-on: The Grudge 2 is a japonais film of genre Thriller directed by Takashi Shimizu with Noriko Sakai
Ju-on: The Grudge 2 (2003)
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Add to a movie listJu-on: The Grudge 2 is a 2003 Japanese supernatural horror film and a sequel to Ju-on: The Grudge. The film was written and directed by Takashi Shimizu. It was released in Japan on August 23, 2003.
The series follows a curse created by a murdered housewife in a house in Nerima. The curse falls on anyone who enters the house where the murders took place. Everyone connected to the house since has met a terrible fate. In the film, Keisuke, the director of a popular TV horror show, casts scream queen, Kyoko Harase, as a special guest to an episode set in the Nerima house. The curse begins to set on everyone involved in the filming, including Kyoko herself. Like all films in the series, the plot is told in anachronistic order, with each parts frequently overlapping each other.
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Like the rest of the Ju-on series, the film takes place over a period of time, and is told in a non-linear order as six overlapping vignettes. The overarching plot involves the haunted house of the deceased Saeki family, whose brutal murders caused by Kayako Saeki’s crush on another man led to the creation of a curse. Anyone who enters the house will be cursed and eventually consumed by the ghosts of the Saekis. The vignettes are presented in the following order: Kyoko (京子), Tomoka (朋香), Megumi (恵), Keisuke (圭介), Chiharu (千春), and Kayako (伽椰子).Actors
Noriko Sakai
(Kyoko Harase)
Kei Horie
(Noritaka Yamashita)
Yui Ichikawa
(Chiharu)
Chiharu Niiyama
(Tomoka Miura)
Kaoru Mizuki
(Aki Harase)
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, 1h32Directed by Takashi Shimizu
Origin Japon
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Themes Films about children, Ghost films
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Rating66%
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, 1h42Directed by Takashi Shimizu
Origin USA
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, 1h31Directed by Takashi Shimizu
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Themes Films about children, Ghost films
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, 1h16Directed by Takashi Shimizu
Origin USA
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