The Grudge 2

United States

2006

116 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 1.9/5 Stars.
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SCR Stephen Susco, Takashi Shimizu

CAST Sarah Michelle Gellar, Amber Tamblyn, Edison Chen, Arielle Kebbel, Takako Fuji, Sarah Roemer, Matthew Knight, Misako Uno, Teresa Palmer, Ohga Tanaka, Yuya Ozeki, Jennifer Beals, Christopher Cousins

The deadly curse continues to gain strength in this sequel to the international smash hit. After learning her sister Karen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) has been hospitalized, Aubrey Davis (Amber Tamblyn) flies to Tokyo, where she teams with a journalist (Edison Chen) to investigate the sinister mystery. Meanwhile, the supernatural curse spreads around the globe, afflicting a Chicago housewife (Jennifer Beals), among others.

Director

Takashi Shimizu

Japanese director Takashi Shimizu’s first experience in film was working part-time at a Kyoto movie theater, while writing scripts in his spare time. Several years of freelancing as an assistant director followed and in 1997 he enrolled at the Film School of Tokyo.

A short film project he did for school attracted the attention of director Kyoshi Kurosawa and screenwriter Hiroshi Takashi. They introduced him to producer Taka Ichise, who had been asked to produce a series of horror stories for a cell phone company. He asked the young director to give him some ideas of what might scare him and this process launched the beginning of the Ju-on horror movie series.

Four Japanese Ju-on movies later, Shimizu directed his first American-produced feature — The Grudge (2004), an English-language version of his hit film, Ju-on: The Grudge — starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as an American in Japan.

Shimizu won a Crystal Skull Award at Screamfest for Ju-on: The Grudge (2003). —tribute… read more