Ju-on: The Grudge 2 (Ju-on 2) (2003)
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Reviews Counted: 71
Fresh: 41 | Rotten: 30
The film grows more repetitive as it goes on, and as a result, the scares lessen.
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 10
The film grows more repetitive as it goes on, and as a result, the scares lessen.
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Average Rating: 3.4/5
User Ratings: 37,565
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Directed by Takashi Shimizu, The Grudge follows volunteer homecare worker Rika Nishida (Megumi Okina), whose altruism leads her to Chiharu (Yui Ichikawa), a catatonic old woman slowly dying in a home filled with years worth of accumulated filth. Rika's suspicion is aroused when, during the course of her volunteer duties, she can't help but sense an overwhelming feeling of dread. Eventually, Rika opens an old wardrobe only to discover a malevolent boy who introduces himself as Toshio (Yuya
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Cast
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Megumi Okina
Rika -
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Misa Uehara
Izumi Toyama -
Kanji Tsuda
Katsuya Tokunaga -
Yui Ichikawa
Chiharu -
Misaki Ito
Hitomi Tokunaga -
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Noriko Sakai
Kyoko Harase -
Chiharu Niiyama
Tomoka Miura -
Kei Horie
Noritaka -
Shingo Katsurayama
Keisuke -
Takako Fuji
Kayako Saeki -
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Yukizumi Ito
Obstetrician -
Satoru Jitsunashi
Doctor B -
Mio Kagawa
Nurse B -
Hidetoshi Kageyama
Kazumasa Ishikura -
Sakura Kamata
Little Kayako B -
Yuu Kamata
Little Kayako A -
Erika Kuroishi
Hiromi -
Hidekazu Mashima
Assistant Director -
Naoruki Mastuakawa
A Boy -
Kaoru Mizuki
Aki Harase -
Yasuhi Nakamura
Soma a Soundman -
Chika Nojima
Nurse A -
Yuya Ozeki
Toshio -
Ayumu Saito
Masashi Ishikura -
Toshiaki Tanabe
Doctor A -
Hiroko Toda
Actress -
Kenji Yamagami
Watanabe a Cameraman -
Emi Yamamoto
Megumi -
Shinobu Yuuki
Kaoru Ishikura -
Uchiyama Zeeko
Director
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All Critics (83) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (46) | Rotten (30) | DVD (17)
If you are new to horror that places atmosphere and psychological intensity over gore, Ju-On is a good place to start.
Top CriticIt's creepy, all right. It's just that how it goes about creeping you out is sometimes just plain cheesy.
It's much harder on you than mere fright: It's... creepy.
Shimizu is obviously impatient with dull exposition and wants us to get straight to the good scary stuff.
Turns into a joke -- a parody of its effective first few scenes.
Ju-on has the ability to shoot chills up, down and, well, sideways across a viewer's spine.
... a film that, perhaps better than any other ever made, conveys the disturbing sense of the uncanny -- of fear that goes beyond reason or explanation ...
Ye olde cursed-house-cuz-child-and-mom-were-killed Japanese midnight flick.
its device of a film-within-a-film, far from being some clever-clever postmodern contrivance, adds another layer of disorientation to Shimizu's carefully constructed hall of mirrors.
With just a little bit of editing and some disorienting sound effects, Japanese director Takashi Shimizu can create more tension and jolts than most filmmakers can with oceans of blood.
There are too many characters and few of them are portrayed in a way that would allow audience to really care about their fate.
Audience Reviews for Ju-on: The Grudge 2 (Ju-on 2)
Super Reviewer
'Ju-On: The Grudge 2' is what I've learned the fourth film in the series. Watched the first one, wasn't amazed and skipped right to this one.
This film continues the story of the "curse" that was initialized in the original. In this one, a reality TV show host wants to make a feature of the house because he has become interested of the whole thingy. It doesn't come as a surprise that death is waiting for them all...
This installment to the series is just as scary as the first one. Like I said, I skipped the middle ones and went directy to see this. Felt uncomfortable but not that much as in the original because the "curse" was familiar to me. Nevertheless, scared the shit out of me at times but I still prefer different horror movies, like 'The Others' or 'White Chicks'...
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