JU-ON (THE GRUDGE)

Ju-On The Grudge is a 2003 Japanese film written and directed by Takashi Shimizu. The movie is the third installment in the Ju-On movie series that started in 2000 with the direct-to-video productions Ju-On (The Curse) and Ju-On (The Curse 2).

Ju-On The Grudge focuses on Rika Nishina a social worker, and all the events that happen to her after she comes to visit the Tokunagas. She was called to this house since a social worker that was previously asigned to the house disappeared suddenly. After a lot of terrible incidents that she experiences in the house, she discovers that the real reason behind the deaths in the house and also that they are all connected. Later in the movie it is revealed that Rika was destined to play out the curse; Rika was supposed to die the same way as Kayako did, and in that way se would become the next fulfiller of the Ju-On.

JU-ON: GIRL IN BLACK

Ju-On: Girl In Black is a 2009 Japanese horror film co-written and directed by Mari Asato, and starring Hana Matsumoto, Ai Kago, Yuno Nakazono, Masanobu Katsumura, Kôji Seto, and Yuri Nakamura. The Film is the seventh installment in the Ju-On series that started in 2000; it was released in honor of the 10th anniversary of the Ju-On series together with the 2009, Ju-On: Old Lady In White.

Once more, strange things begin to happen around a certain Japanese suburb. This time a cyst of some sort is discovered in the body of a girl named Fukie, but later on it turns out that such malformation was caused as a result of an aborted twin. It appears that the unborn spirit's grudge has put on a curse on the family and whomever comes across them.

JU-ON 2 (THE CURSE 2)

Ju-On 2 is a 2000 Japanese horror movie directed by Takashi Shimizu and starring Ryo ta Koyama, Yurei Yanagi, Yuuko Daike, Takako Fuji, and Kahori Fujii.

Ju-on 2 continues the story of Suzuki Kyoko and shows how all her family was affected by the curse. It also shows the story of the Kitadas, another couple living in the house and the extended storyline of Detective Kamio from Ju-on 1. Ju-on 2 also shows what will be the fate of the school girls who had sneaked into the house, one of which is Toyama Izumi, whose story would be continued in Ju-on: The Grudge. This movie presents another aspect of the curse in which it can drive a person insane before finally killing them.

JU-ON: OLD LADY IN WHITE

Ju-On: Old Lady In Black is a 2009 Japanese horror film directed by Ryûta Miyake, and starring Akina Minami, Hiroki Suzuki, Mihiro, Aimi Nakamura, and Marika Fukunaga. The Film is the sixth installment in the Ju-On series that started in 2000.

Once again creepy things begin to happen in the suburbs and strange visions appear everywhere. This time the events take place at a seemingly familiar house, where five members of a family are brutally and methodically murdered. It is later known that the assassin also killed himself, leaving behind a cassette recorder at the scene on which he can be heard saying, that he will come back, and some other phrases in unison with a strange female voice. It is later revealed that voice belongs to a victim of the family massacre, his young sister and a very close friend of a girl named Akane, who has a strong sense of the supernatural. Seven years after the events, Akane begins seeing visions of a female ghost wearing a yellow hat and red satchel. Some other people around the city, also experiment creepy visions but this time is an old lady in white who seems to be lurking in the dark.

JU-ON (THE CURSE)

Ju-On is a 2000 Japanese horror film directed by Takashi Shimizu. The movie stars Yūrei Yanagi, Chiaki Kuriyama, Hitomi Miwa, Takako Fuji, and Takashi Matsuyama.

Ju-on follows the lives of the people connected to the house in Nerima where the gruesome murder of a housewife occurred due to the jealousy of her husband as she loved another man. School teacher Shunsuke Kobayashi visits the house of his absent student, Toshio. Soon as the teacher enters the home, he discovers that Toshio is in no a really good state. He waits for Toshio's parents to come but nobody arrives; it finally becomes too late when he realizes what the Saeki family has become and not even Kobayashi's wife make it out alive. The movie also explores the fates of the next family to live in the house. This timeline of the film also extends the stories of Tsuyoshi and Kanna from Gakkō no kaidan G. The last timeline shows a snippet of Suzuki Kyoko's experience, a psychic invited by her brother to look into the house that he was going to sell, which was the cursed Saeki house. This V-cinema movie showed death as the cursed's manifestation.

KATASUMI/4444444444

Katasumi (a.k.a. In A Corner) and 4444444444 are two 1998 Japanese horror short films written and directed by Takashi Shimizu. The two stories are the actual foundations of Ju-on and are considered the prequels of the main story.

Katasumi (In A Corner) starring Takako Fuji.
The short starts with two school girls at school during summer break feeding their rabbits, as Kanna pricks her finger, her friend Hisayo goes to into the school to get her a bandage; when she returns, Kanna is nowhere to be found, so she starts calling her but she gets no answer; after calling for her friend a few times, a pale long-haired woman (Kayako) appears right in front of Hisayo and begins to crawl out of the bushes toward her. As Hisayo grabs a gardening trowel to defend herself from the apparent attack, Kanna can be seen on the ground, now pale and bloody. Then, as Kanna and Kayako start crawling towards Hisayo, the scene fades out. (Running time 3:24)

4444444444 starring Kazushi Ando.
This short starts with a young man who, while riding his bike on an alley close to a school, hears a cell phone ringing on the ground and decides to pick it up. The incoming call number shows up as 4444444444. As the man answers, the only reply he gets is the sound of a cat-like meow. He, eventually, asks if the person on the other end is watching him, then he hears "I am!" on the other side and as he turns around, he sees a pale naked boy (Toshio) sitting next yo him. The camera then zooms in on the boy's face as he suddenly meows and black liquid pours out of his mouth. (Running time 2:58)

THE RING VIRUS

The Ring Virus is a 1999 South Korean horror film directed by Dong-bin Kim, and starring Eun-Kyung Shin, Seung-hyeon Lee, Jin-yeong Jeong, and Du-na Bae. The movie is the Korean adaptation of Koji Suzuki's 1991 novel, Ring.

Sun-ju is a reporter who, after the mysterious death of her niece and other three teenagers on the same hour and with the symptoms of heart attack, decides to uncover the series of inexplicable deaths. Her investigation takes her to a resort, where she finds a videotape filled with mysterious images and a strange message. After watching the film, Sun-ju finds that the message that appears on the screen is incomplete, but somehow she knows that she has just been cursed too. Later on, she finds out that in order to save herself she must find the origins of the videotape to end with the curse. Things become yet more awkward after Sun-ju's little daughter watches the movie; then, Sun-ju has a stronger reason to untangle the mystery and save her daughter and herself.

JU-ON 2 (THE GRUDGE 2)

The Grudge 2 is a 2003 Japanese horror film, it is the fourth in the Ju-On movie series written and directed by Takashi Shimizu.

While driving , Kyoko Harase and her fiancé Masashi are involved in a car accident apparently caused by them hitting something. When Kyoko regains consciousness, she realizes that Masashi is unconscious and she is bleeding from her womb supposedly losing her baby.

Later, as Kyoko returns to her daily life as an actress, she and a television crew fall victims of the curse when they shot a show in the haunted house where Kayako was brutally murdered by her husband years ago, and where the grudge was born. However, while members of the team die or disappear, Kyoko is informed that she is still pregnant, and is carrying a three-and-a-half-month-old fetus in her womb. Soon, it will be revealed if this is a miracle or just a grusome part of Kayako's curse.

CELLO

Cello is a 2005 South Korean horror film directed by Lee Woo-cheol.

After Hong Mi-ju (Seong Hyeon-ah) gets threatened by one of her former cello students, she starts experiencing weird things going on around her. Then, an invitation to a cello concert reminds her of a car accident that one of her friends supposedly suffered. Over the next few days a lot of things start happening to Mi-ju and her family and she feels there is an evil force surrounding her household. As some people around her start dying in strange circumstances, Mi-ju begins to experience some kinds of flashbacks of a car accident she was involved in; from here on her own reality becomes more and more awkward as she starts discovering where the real evil lies in.

JU-REI

Ju-Rei (a.k.a. The Uncanny) is a 2004 Japanese horror film directed by Kôji Shiraishi.

The movie starts in chapter ten when a group of high school girls are dancing on an alley and after the practice one of them is distracted by a weird black figure; then, the rest of the girls start to see a pale woman kneeling right in front of their distracted friend unaware of what is about to happen to them. Then, in the following chapters the movie itself tells the story of how all the victims are related to one another and how, after discovering the truth about an urban legend of a black figure, a group of high school girls begin to die under mysterious circumstances. Then in the prologue the movie will tell who the black hooded figure that kills everybody who encounters is and how everything started.

UNBORN BUT FORGOTTEN

Unborn But Forgotten is a 2002 South Korean suspense film directed by Chang-jae Lim, and starring Jun-ho Jeong, Eun-ju Lee, and Ji-yu Kim.

After a lot of pregnant women start to die mysteriously, TV hostess Han Su-jin along with detective Choi decide to investigate what lies behind the deaths. It seems that there is a certain relationship between the dead women and a certain web page about a now nonexistent hospital. However, when Su-jin discovers that she is also pregnant, she accidentally access the page and finds out that every woman that has logged into it has died fifteen days later. It is then up to her and detective Choi to find out what is going on before it is too late for Su-jin.

BLOODY BEACH

Bloody Beach is a 2000 South Korean horror/slasher film directed by Kim In-soo and starring Kim Hyun Jung, Jae Hee, Lee Se-eun, Lee Seung-chae, Lee Jeong-jin, Kim Min-sun, and Lee Eun-ju.

A group of people meet at a chat room and decide to get together in person for a party on the beach and have a little fun in the sun. Even though their vacation seems perfect at the beginning, it transforms into their worst nightmare. It appears that somebody else has followed them to the beach house and each of them is being gruesomely murdered. After a while, the remaining youngsters discover that everything seems to be connected to someone they met before and they chatted with a long time ago. The guy, who used to call himself "Sandmanzz", apparently killed himself after some other guys at the chat room started to ignore him. At the end only a few will stay alive to find out who the real murderer is and end with their horrible nightmare.