Synopsis
Volunteer home-care worker Rika is assigned to visit a family, she is cursed and chased by two revengeful fiends: Kayako, a woman brutally murdered by her husband and her son Toshio. Each person that lives in or visits the haunted house is murdered or disappears.
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Cast
- Megumi OkinaRika Nishina
- Misa UeharaIzumi Toyama
- Yoji TanakaYuji Toyama (uncredited)
- Misaki ItōHitomi Tokunaga
- Kanji TsudaKatsuya Tokunaga
- Shuri MatsudaKazumi Tokunaga
- Kayoko ShibataMariko
- Yui IchikawaChiharu
- Yukako KukuriMiyuki
- Takako FujiKayako Saeki
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Film Threat
Basically, what you have in Ju-On is a collection of effectively scary sights and sounds - sound effects play a huge part in rolling that chill down your spine – and that's about it. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
Shimizu generates a sense of palpable dread in each segment, expertly manipulating tried-and-true scare tactics supplemented by a truly inspired use of spooky sound effects. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Director Takashi Shimizu chooses cruel psychological suspense over gore and succeeds in spinning a minimal plot into a panorama of malice. - 50
Variety
A haunted-house one-trick pony. - 50
New York Post
The story is told in fractured time. This might not be a problem if his visuals were more fear-inducing. - 40
Village Voice
Ju-on never snaps into focus like a "Go" or a "Pulp Fiction," and what at first registers as sloppy plotting starts to seem positively diabolical. - 40
The New York Times
Because there is a new hero to identify with every 10 minutes, the viewer isn't drawn into a sustained suspense, but is merely subjected to a series of more or less foreseeable shocks. - 40
Los Angeles Times
The film's repetitious, episodic structure seems to unnecessarily alleviate the building tension, making it a far less frightening film than it might have been.
