Juon: The Curse
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| German title | Juon: The Curse |
| Original title | Juon |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 70 minutes |
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| Director | Takashi Shimizu |
| script | Takashi Shimizu |
| production | Kazuo Katō, Masaaki Takashima, Takashige Ichise |
| music |
Gary Ashiya , Shiro Sato |
| camera | Nobuhito Kisuki |
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Ju-on: The Curse ( Japanese 呪 怨 , Ju-on ; to dt . Literally "grudge" or "resentment") is a Japanese horror film from 2000 by Takashi Shimizu . It was produced as a V-Cinema and is still popular today. He tells the story of a cursed house in Nerima , a suburb of Tokyo .
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The plot of the film is not chronological and initially seems confused. She tells the story from the point of view of six different people, which means that the overall story only emerges gradually.
Kayako Saeki is unhappily married to her husband Takeo and has a son named Toshio . She secretly falls in love with the elementary school teacher Shunsuke Kobayashi and develops an obsession for him, although - unlike Kayako - he is happily married. Kayako doesn't seem to mind, she continues to pursue him and writes him anonymous love letters. When her husband discovers his wife's obsession one day, he breaks her neck in front of Toshio's eyes. While Kayako dies in agony, she puts a curse on the house . Meanwhile, Takeo stabs the family cat and then drowns Toshio in the bathtub. Then he wanders through the streets, observes the house and finally dies in a manner that is not described in detail.
When Shunsuke Kobayashi notices that Toshio hasn't been to school for days, he worriedly drives to the Saekis' house and meets the boy there. This looks strangely apathetic and pale and makes repeated meowing noises. The house itself is in utter chaos . Kobayashi asks Toshio questions about his absence from school and about his parents without realizing that he has a ghost before him. He looks around the living room and suddenly notices that Toshio has walked into his room without notice and follows him. There he finds Kayako's diary and reads the sinister letters driven by fanatical love. Then he discovers Kayako's body in the attic. When Kobayashi wants to leave the house with Toshio, he is first called by Takeo on his cell phone and spoken to in a confused manner, then Kobayashi is surprised and killed by Kayako's ghost.
Some time later, a single mother moved into the house with her children Kanna and Tsuyoshi . The children have an assistant teacher named Yuki who is very afraid of cats. While Tsuyoshi and Kanna are working, Yuki hears strange noises that the viewer does not initially hear. Kanna leaves the room to feed the school rabbits with her friend Hisayo . Now the noises can also be heard by the audience. Yuki's attempt to drown out the noises with music fails when her Walkman fails. When a black cat startles Yuki, she escapes into a closet that has a breakthrough to the attic. Suddenly the noise can be heard again. When Yuki looks up, Kayako's ghost pulls her up and kills her.
Meanwhile, the student Mizuho has been looking for her boyfriend Tsuyoshi, with whom she has an appointment, for hours. When she gets to school, she finds his cell phone, which she takes away. Neither his teacher nor a loudspeaker call gives Mizuho a clue as to where Tsuyoshi is. While she is searching the staff room, the power goes out and the girl crawls under one of the tables to look for the power plug for the table lamps. Suddenly she sees two pale, bare feet walking past on the other side of the table. The cell phone that Mizuho had left on the table rings and the number 444444 appears on the display. When she answers the call, she smiles at Toshio from below and meows.
In the meantime, Kanna's corpse , which contains rabbit blood and a human lower jaw, is being examined in a police autopsy room . However, a corpse without a lower jaw has not yet been discovered. In the house of Kanna and Tsuyoshi, the mother has come home and meets the jawless spirit of Kanna there.
Some time later, a broker takes his sister Kyoko , who has psi powers , to the Saekis' house to sell it. There she sees Kayako bending over herself. Kyoko drinks sake and spits it out again, for her a sign that the house is cursed. She pleads with her brother to let anyone interested try the sake and to advise against buying it if the sake tastes strange. But the realtor ignores Kyoko's warning and sells the house to a family. Upon hearing this, Kyoko goes to the house and sees that the wife of the family is already obsessed with Kayako's ghost.
Gakkō no Kaidan G.
In 1998, several directors, including Takashi Shimizu , who was already inspired by the Ju-on series, produced the television film Gakkō no Kaidan G ( 学校 の 怪 談 G , Eng. "School ghost stories G") with several small horror short films . Two of these short films, 444444 and Katasumi , show what happens to Kanna, Hisayo and Tsuyoshi from the later, first Juon film.
444444
Tsuyoshi rides his bike to school to meet his girlfriend Mizuho. He finds a cell phone on which the number 444444 calls. He picks up and says it's not his phone, but doesn't get a correct answer, just a meow. When this happens for the second time, he asks if the other person is watching him. “Yes” is the answer, but it doesn't come from the cell phone. Toshio suddenly sits next to Tsuyoshi, fiddling with his knees. The camera zooms in on Toshio's face, then he meows and a black substance shoots out of his mouth.
Katasumi
Kanna and Hisayo take care of the school rabbits. When Kanna gets bored, she accidentally cuts her finger. Hisayo goes to school to get sanitary towels, but when she returns, Kanna is gone. Suddenly Kayako appears from behind a tree and behind Hisayo lies Kanna.
Manga
2003 appeared in Japan a manga adaptation of the film called Juon - video side (Joshō) ( 呪 怨 -video side- 〈序章 d, Eng . "~ (Prolog)"), written by Takashi Shimizu and drawn by Miki Rinno .
Divided into two volumes, Egmont published manga and anime in a translation by Mario Hirasaki in 2005 and 2006 under the title Ju-On: The Grudge . Dark Horse Comics brought out an English version in March 2006 under the title Juon - video side and in the original format from a volume.
Web links
- Juon: The Curse in the Internet Movie Database (English)