Ju-On: The Grudge 2
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| Japanese | 呪怨2じゅおん2 |
| Hepburn | Juon 2 |
| Directed by | Takashi Shimizu |
| Produced by | Shin'ya Egawa Takashige Ichise Kunio Kawakami Yoshinori Kumazawa Haruhiko Matsushita Hiroki Numata |
| Written by | Takashi Shimizu |
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Noriko Sakai Chiharu Niiyama Kei Horie Yui Ichikawa Shingo Katsurayama Emi Yamamoto |
| Music by | Shiro Sato |
| Cinematography | Tokusho Kikumura |
| Edited by | Nobuyuki Takahashi |
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95 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Ju-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.
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).
Film actress Kyoko Harase and her fiancé Masashi Ishikura drive home after Kyoko starred in a paranormal television show called “Heart Stopping Backgrounds”. Kyoko is pregnant and expecting soon. Masashi stops the car after running over a black cat but they continue on, only for the car to crash when the ghost of Toshio Saeki appears. Masashi falls into a coma and Kyoko has a miscarriage. Kyoko encounters Toshio again who touches her stomach before disappearing, and she tells her mother that he must have been the spirit of her lost child. Three months later, Kyoko has returned to acting but is shocked when a doctor announces she is three months pregnant. Her mother also suddenly dies.
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