Ju-on: The Beginning of the End | |
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Directed by | Masayuki Ochiai |
Produced by | Takashige Ichinose |
Written by | Masayuki Ochiai Takashige Ichinose |
Starring |
Nozomi Sasaki Sho Aoyagi Reina Triendl Miho Kanazawa Haori Takahashi Yuina Kuroshima Misaki Saisho Kai Kobayashi Yasuhito Hida Yoshihiko Hakamada |
Music by | Kôji Ueno |
Cinematography | Hirofumi Okada |
Edited by | Yoshifumi Fukazawa |
Production
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Altemate
Fujishoji Gambit NBCUniversal Entertainment Showgate W Field |
Distributed by | Showgate |
Release date
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Running time
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91 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Box office | ¥226 million (Japan) (US$1.90 million) |
Fujishoji
Gambit
NBCUniversal Entertainment
Showgate
Ju-on: The Beginning of the End (呪怨: 終わりの始まり Ju-on: Owari no Hajimari?) is a 2014 Japanese supernatural horror film and the tenth installment of the Ju-on franchise. The film was directed and co-written by Masayuki Ochiai with Takashige Ichinose producing and co-writing.The Beginning of the End is a reboot of the series, retelling the events of the cursed Saeki family that centers on a house in Nerima, Japan.
Continuing the trademark of the series, Beginning of the End is divided into eight segments presented in an anachronistic order, each titled after a character central to that segment. They are, in the following order: Yui (結衣), Nanami (七海), Kayako (伽椰子), Yayoi (弥生), Rina (莉奈), Aoi (葵), Naoto (直人), and Toshio (俊雄). The synopsis presents a rough chronology of the film's plot.
In 1995 Tokyo, after a report of a possible child abuse happening in the Yamaga household, authorities and the schoolteacher of the family's son, Toshio, search the household and find Toshio dead in the bedroom closet.
Nine years later, a group of high school students: Nanami, Yayoi, Aoi, and Rina, visit the former Yamaga house, now taken for sale by Aoi's older sister. Nanami is shoved to enter due to rumors of the house being haunted. While the others find drawings depicting horrific deaths and laugh, Nanami hears a noise and sees black liquid. She tries to escape but Toshio grabs her. Unaware, her friends leave. Yayoi is later dragged away by Toshio. Nanami and Aoi find Rina having gone insane since the house visit. Rina is then also taken by Toshio. Aoi's brother-in-law, Kyosuke, is concerned that Aoi visited the house. In the bathroom, Toshio kills Aoi by ripping off her jaw and leaving it for her sister to find. Nanami is terrorized by her dead friends before also being killed. Meanwhile, Aoi's sister sells the house to a couple named Takeo and Kayako Saeki.