Juon: The Curse
- Takako Fuji: Kayako Saeki
- Yurei Yanagi: Shunshuke Kobayashi
- Chiaki Kuriyama: Mizuho Tamura
- Ryota Koyama: Toshio Saeki
- Takashi Matsuyama: Takeo Saeki
- Asumi Miwa: Kanna Murakami
- Kazushi Ando: Tsuyoshi Murakami
- Yumi Yushiyuki: Woman Murakami
- Yuue: Woman Kobayashi
- Hitomi Miwa: Yuki
Ju -on: The Curse (Japanese呪 怨, Ju -on, to German literally " anger " or " resentment " ) is a Japanese horror film made in 2000 by Takashi Shimizu. It was produced as a V- Cinema and is popular to this day. It tells the history of a haunted house in Nerima, a suburb of Tokyo.
Action
The plot of the film is unchronologisch and first appears confused. She tells the story from the perspective of six different people, bringing the total plot yields only gradually.
Kayako Saeki is unhappily married to her husband Takeo and has a son named Toshio. You secretly falls in love college professor Shunsuke Kobayashi and developed an obsession for him, though he is married, in contrast to Kayako - happy. That seems Kayako but not disturbing, they pursued it further and wrote him anonymous love letters. When her husband comes one day after the obsession of his wife, he breaks her in the eyes Toshio neck. Even as Kayako died in agony, they occupied the house with a curse. Meanwhile, Takeo stabs the family cat and then drowned Toshio in the bathtub. Then he wanders through the streets, watching the house and eventually dies on not precisely described way.
As Shunsuke Kobayashi noted that Toshio no longer comes to school for days, he goes to the house of Saekis concerned and meets the boy. This seems strangely apathetic and pale and are repeated mewing noises. In the house itself, there is an unholy mess. Shunsuke is Toshio questions about his absence from school and to his parents, unaware that he has a mind to go. He looks around the living room and is suddenly found that Toshio went to his room without notice, and follows him. There he finds Kayako's diary and reads the driven fanatical love Schmachtbriefe. Then he discovered Kayako's body in the attic. As Shunsuke along with Toshio wants to leave the house, he is first called by Takeo via phone and confused addressed, then Shunsuke of Kayako is surprised and killed the spirit.
Years later, a single mother with her children Kanna and Tsuyoshi is drawn into the house. The children have an auxiliary teacher named Yuki, the great fear of cats has. While Tsuyoshi and Kanna work, Yuki hears strange noises, which at first does not hear the audience. Kanna leaves the room to feed with her friend Hisayo the school rabbits. Now the sounds are audible for the audience. Yuki's attempt to drown out the noise with music fails when her Walkman failed. As a black cat Yuki frightened, she flees into a cupboard where there is a breakthrough to the attic. Suddenly, the sound will play again. As Yuki looks up, she is pulled up and killed by Kayako's spirit.
Under Food examines the student Mizuho for hours after her boyfriend Tsuyoshi, with which it is arranged. When she gets to school, she finds his cell phone, which she takes. Neither his teacher, nor a speaker call Mizuho gets a pointer to where Tsuyoshi staying. As she searches the teachers' room, the power goes out and the girl crawls under one of the tables, to search for the power plugs for the lamps. Suddenly she sees two pale, bare feet on the other side of the table pass. The mobile phone that Mizuho had left on the table, rings and the display is the number 444,444th When she answers the phone, she smiles Toshio from below and meows.
Meanwhile corpse is examined in a police autopsy room Kanna, in which there are rabbit blood and a human lower jaw. A body without a lower jaw has as yet not discovered. In the house of Kanna and Tsuyoshi 's mother has returned home, where he met the jawless spirit of Kanna.
Again, many years later takes a broker his sister Kyoko, who has psychic powers, with the house of Saekis because he should sell it. There she sees Kayako, bending over himself. Kyoko drinking sake and spits it right back out, for them, a sign that the house is cursed. She asks her brother fervently try to let each party concerned by the sake and discourage the buying, if the Sake should taste funny. However, the broker ignores warning Kyoko and sold the house to a family. As Kyoko hears this, she goes to the house and sees the family the woman is already possessed by Kayako's spirit.
Gakko no Kaidan G
In 1998 produced several directors, including Takashi Shimizu, who was inspired early as the Ju -on series, the television film Gakko no Kaidan G (学校 の 怪談G, dt " school ghost stories G") with several small short horror films. In two of these short films, 444444 and Katasumi is shown, what happened to Kanna, Hisayo and Tsuyoshi from the later, first Juon movie.
444444
Tsuyoshi rides his bike to school to meet with his girlfriend Mizuho. He finds a cell phone on which calls the number 444444. He declines and says it was not his phone, but gets no right answer, just a meow. When this happens a second time, he asks if his interlocutor watch him. " Yes " is the answer, but it does not come out of the phone. Besides Tsuyoshi suddenly sits Toshio, who fumbles to his knees. The camera zooms in on Toshio face, then he meows and a black substance shoots out of his mouth.
Katasumi
Kanna and Hisayo maintain the school rabbits. As Kanna bored, she accidentally cuts her finger. Hisayo runs into the school to pick up napkins, but when she returns, Kanna is gone. Suddenly, Kayako appears behind a tree and behind Hisayo is Kanna.
Manga
In 2003, in Japan, a manga adaptation of the film called Juon - video side ( Josho ) (呪 怨video side- <序章>, dt ' ~ ( Prologue ) " ), written by Takashi Shimizu and drawn by Miki Rinno.
Divided into two volumes of this published in the years 2005 and 2006, Egmont Manga and Anime in a translation by Mario Hirasaki in German under the title Ju -On: The Grudge. Dark Horse Comics brought in March 2006, an English version under the title Juon - video out side and in the original format of a tape.