And a review:
Hoo boy! Another scary Japanese movie straight out the Ring tradition (and indeed the movie flyer looks eerily similar to that of Ringu 2). Shimizu Takashi is the director here, working with both Kiyoshi Kurosawa (director of Cure, Charisma, and Kairo) and Hiroshi Takahashi himself (screenwriter of the Ring trilogy). What this triad brings to the table is a classic japanese horror film relying on mood and sound and Japanese cultural intuitions about the fate of wronged souls.
The film opens with the text explanation:
“JU-ON: a curse born of a grudge held by someone who dies in the grip of powerful anger. It gathers in the places frequented by that person in life, working its spell on those who come into contact with it and thus creating itself anew.”
Black and white images of an obviously demented husband and slain family provide the introductory scenes, and provide the viewer, upon hindsight, with the temporal cause of the misfortunate story about to unfold. Indeed, the story is about a VERY haunted house, possessed by the deceased husband, wife and little boy of the introductory scenes. In essence, all who enter the house find them stalked by inexplicable dread and materializing shadows.
The film consists of six intertwining episodes (in addition to the introductory scene) each named after the primary victim of the vignette. The episodes, though not chronologically sequential, are proximate enough in time to each other and each revolves around a separate main character who in some way knows or is related to the characters of the other episodes. The first and last episodes are bracketed by the main character Rika Nishida who comes closest to solving the ghostly puzzle (but alas fails in the last scene).
Here are some pretty detailed descriptions of the six episodes. These may constitute "spoilers", though they certainly won't take the edge off the creepiness of seeing the movie. No English or English-subtitled version of Juon currently exists, so I am providing these for the benefit of those wishing to know what the movie is all abou
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