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Takako Fuji is a Actor Japonaise born on 27 july 1972 at Tokyo (Japon)

Takako Fuji

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Nationality Japon
Birth 27 july 1972 (51 years) at Tokyo (Japon)

Takako Fuji (藤 貴子, Fuji Takako, born July 27, 1972) is a Japanese actress and voice artist, well known for her performance as Kayako Saeki in The Grudge and Ju-on franchises.

Biography

A native of Tokyo, Honshū Island, Japan who was born there in 1972, Fuji studied acting at the Aoyama Gakuin University, and subsequently joined the Ein Theatrical Company. Her work was usually on-stage or in voice-over studios, but occasionally she would also appear in films. Her most famous role to this date is that of Kayako Saeki, the vengeful ghost in the Ju-on series, which she subsequently played in The Grudge series later on as well. She first played Kayako in the 1998 short movie Katasumi, part of the Gakkô no kaidan G collection. She then reprised her role in the direct-to-video film Ju-on and its sequel, Ju-on 2. When director Takashi Shimizu decided to direct two additional installments for a broader theatrical release, which he called (Ju-on: The Grudge and Ju-on: The Grudge 2), Fuji played the character of Kayako twice more. When the films were subsequently remade for an American audience as The Grudge Fuji played the role yet again. She reprised the role for the last time in The Grudge 2. Fuji did not play Kayako in The Grudge 3, the third installment of The Grudge series.

Fuji later stated in interviews that she had grown a bit tired of the role and that sometimes it was hard for her to keep herself motivated, since she had played the role 7 distinct times by then. Fuji admitted, however, that she would continue playing the role of Kayako as long as director Takashi Shimizu desired to hire her again for the role. Fuji also stated, in other interviews, that sometimes she pretended to be Kayako Saeki in front of her friends at parties. She also confessed that she fully understood from where Kayako's anger derived. (As of early April 2011, no reliable English translation of the explanation Fuji gave for the source of Kayako Saeki's anger was known to have been made public in the United States.)

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Filmography of Takako Fuji (11 films)

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The Grudge 3, 1h30
Directed by Toby Wilkins
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about children, Seafaring films, Transport films, Ghost films
Actors Johanna Braddy, Shawnee Smith, Beau Mirchoff, Emi Ikehata, Gil McKinney, Marina Sirtis
Roles Kayako Saeki (archival footage)
Rating46% 2.311592.311592.311592.311592.31159
Jake (the only survivor from the The Grudge 2) is placed in a mental asylum after the events of the second film under the care of Dr. Francine Sullivan, his caretaker. One day Dr. Sullivan leaves Jake locked in his room as he tried to escape several times, as Jake begs her not to saying "she" will get him. While huddling on his bed, he hears Kayako in the room and begins pounding on the door to be let out. Kayako grabs Jake and begins to throw him around the room. Sullivan is quickly called by an officer, as she watches the footage on camera wondering what Jake is doing to himself (as Kayako cannot be seen on the footage). As they race to his room, they find him dead, with every bone in his body broken with his wrist slashed and blood everywhere.
The Grudge 2, 1h42
Directed by Takashi Shimizu
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about children, Seafaring films, Transport films, Ghost films
Actors Amber Tamblyn, Arielle Kebbel, Jennifer Beals, Edison Chen, Matthew Knight, Sarah Roemer
Roles Kayako Saeki
Rating50% 2.5048952.5048952.5048952.5048952.504895
In Japanese society, it is said a curse is created when a person dies in the grip of a powerful rage or sorrow. Those who encounter the evil supernatural force are consumed by it, the curse is born repeatedly and spreads. The original victims of the curse, the Saeki family, haunt their Tokyo suburban house as ghosts and kill anyone who enters. Housewife Kayako Saeki was murdered by her husband Takeo after he discovered she loved another man, their son Toshio and pet cat Mar also being murdered, before Takeo was hung by Kayako’s ghost. In the first film, American social worker Karen Davis tried to burn the house down to stop the curse, but failed, finding herself hospitalised and haunted by Kayako. The film’s chronology is told in a non-linear fashion, taking place in 2004 and 2006 respectfully.
The iDol
The iDol (2006)
, 52minutes
Directed by Norman England
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy
Actors Takako Fuji, Takashi Yamazaki, Yukijirō Hotaru
Roles Rika
Rating77% 3.868443.868443.868443.868443.86844
Reincarnation, 1h36
Directed by Takashi Shimizu
Genres Horror
Themes Films about religion, Ghost films
Actors Karina, Kippei Shiina, Yūka, Shun Oguri, Tetta Sugimoto, Takako Fuji
Roles Hotel Maid
Rating60% 3.0489053.0489053.0489053.0489053.048905
35 years ago, a college professor named Norihasa Omori (Atsushi Haruta) visits a local hotel and films himself killing 11 of the hotel guests, employees, his own children and himself committing suicide as a part of his wish to understand reincarnation. Since then, the footage of the murders disappears.
The Grudge
The Grudge (2004)
, 1h31
Directed by Takashi Shimizu
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about children, Seafaring films, Transport films, Ghost films
Actors Sarah Michelle Prinze, Jason Behr, William Mapother, KaDee Strickland-Behr, Clea DuVall, Bill Pullman
Roles Kayako Saeki
Rating58% 2.9499852.9499852.9499852.9499852.949985
The Grudge describes a curse that is born when someone dies in the grip of a powerful rage or extreme sorrow. The curse is an entity created where the person died. Those who encounter this evil supernatural force die; and the curse is reborn repeatedly, passed from victim to victim in an endless, growing chain of horror. The following events are explained in their actual order; the original film is presented in a non-linear narrative.
Ju-on: The Grudge, 1h32
Directed by Takashi Shimizu
Origin Japon
Genres Horror
Themes Films about children, Ghost films
Actors Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito, Yui Ichikawa, Takako Fuji, Misa Uehara (actress, born 1983), Yūya Ozeki
Roles Kayako Saeki
Rating66% 3.3498753.3498753.3498753.3498753.349875
The film’s story takes place over a number of years and like the other Ju-on films, is told in a non-linear order in six segments. The segments are presented in the following order: Rika (理佳), Katsuya (勝也), Hitomi (仁美), Toyama (遠山), Izumi (いづみ), and Kayako (伽椰子). The synopsis shall be told in the chronological order of events.
Ju-on: The Grudge 2, 1h35
Directed by Takashi Shimizu
Origin Japon
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about children, Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality, Ghost films
Actors Noriko Sakai, Kei Horie, Yui Ichikawa, Chiharu Niiyama, Kaoru Mizuki, Takako Fuji
Roles Kayako Saeki
Rating63% 3.1510953.1510953.1510953.1510953.151095
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).
Ju-on: The Curse, 1h10
Directed by Takashi Shimizu
Origin Japon
Genres Horror
Themes Films about children, Ghost films
Actors Chiaki Kuriyama, Yumi Yoshiyuki, Takako Fuji, Takashi Matsuyama, Hitomi Miwa, Asumi Miwa
Roles Kayako Saeki
Rating68% 3.4470853.4470853.4470853.4470853.447085
The film is told in anachronistic order through six segments, each titled after a character central to each segment. They are, in order: Toshio (俊雄), Yuki (由紀), Mizuho (瑞穂), Kanna (柑菜), Kayako (伽椰子), and Kyoko (響子).
Ju-on: The Curse 2, 1h16
Directed by Takashi Shimizu
Origin Japon
Genres Horror
Themes Films about children, Ghost films
Actors Takako Fuji, Takashi Matsuyama, Tomohiro Kaku, Yūko Daike, Denden, Yūya Ozeki
Roles Kayako Saeki
Rating60% 3.001663.001663.001663.001663.00166
Like the first film, Ju-on 2 is split into six vignettes, the first two being taken from the first. The segments are presented in the following order: Kayako (伽椰子), Kyoko (響子), Tatsuya (達也), Kamio (神尾), Nobuyuki (信之), and Saori (沙織).
Katasumi and 4444444444
Directed by Takashi Shimizu
Genres Drama, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Takako Fuji
Roles Kayako Saeki
Rating67% 3.3874653.3874653.3874653.3874653.387465
Princess Mononoke, 2h14
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Environmental films, Feminist films, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Films about religion, Transport films, Wolves in film, Demons in film, Political films, Alternate history films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Yuriko Ishida, Yoji Matsuda, Kaoru Kobayashi, Yūko Tanaka, Masahiko Nishimura, Makoto Satō
Roles Woman in Iron Town (voice)
Rating83% 4.1502854.1502854.1502854.1502854.150285
In Muromachi period Japan, an Emishi village is attacked by a demon. The last Emishi prince, Ashitaka, kills the demon before it reaches the village, but its corruption curses his arm in the battle. The curse gives him superhuman fighting abilities, but will eventually kill him. The villagers discover that the demon was once a boar god, Nago, corrupted by an iron ball lodged in his body. The village's wise woman tells Ashitaka that he may find a cure in the western lands Nago was exiled from.