JU-ON: THE GRUDGE

Year: 2003
USA: Lions Gate Entertainment / Vitagraph Films
UK: Premier Asia / Contender Entertainment Group
Cast: Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito, Misa Uehara, Yui Ichikawa, Kanji Tsuda, Yoji Tanaka, Takashi Matsuyama, Takako Fuji, Chikara Ishikura, Daisuke Honda, Hirokazu Inoue, Akira Saito
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese (English subtitles)
USA & UK: 92 mins
USA Rated: R for some disturbing images
UK Certificate: 15 contains sustained horror
USA Release Date: 23 July 2004 (Limited Release Los Angeles and New York)
UK Release Date: 2 July 2004


Synopsis

A volunteer home care worker, Nishina Rika (Meguni Okina) visits the home of a bedridden patient and discovers a strange ghostly presence lurking behind a door that's been sealed with tape. Her finding unleashes a horrible evil that confounds police investigators, who discover that a number of people have disappeared from this particular house.

Further investigation leads to Izumi Toyama (Misa Uehara), a former detective who was working on a previous case of a man who murdered his wife in the house and then the son went missing. But when the Ju-On spirit of vengeance that infects the house reaches beyond its boundaries to kill Toyama and his daughter, Rika realises that the horror is spreading - and that she could be the Ju-On's next victim unless she does something about it!