J-Horror is among the most renowned internationally genres of Asian cinema, with the popularity of titles like “Ringu”, “Ju-on”, “Pulse” and so many others still echoing quite intensely. As such, it is quite interesting, even today, to shed a more thorough look to the roots, the motifs, and the reasons of success of these movies, also because some of the most central directors are still at large.
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As such, I have to begin the review by stating that shooting this documentary seems like a colossal endeavor, both for arranging interviews with the likes of Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takashi Shimizu, Teruyoshi Ishii, Joji Iida, Masayuki Ochiai, Shinya Tsukamoto, and Mari Asato, and for tracking down Rie Ino'o, who played Sadako in the first two films, and Takako Fuji, who played Kayako in a number of entries of “Ju-on”. Add...
Check also this article Is J-Horror Coming Back? Six Movies that Suggest So
As such, I have to begin the review by stating that shooting this documentary seems like a colossal endeavor, both for arranging interviews with the likes of Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takashi Shimizu, Teruyoshi Ishii, Joji Iida, Masayuki Ochiai, Shinya Tsukamoto, and Mari Asato, and for tracking down Rie Ino'o, who played Sadako in the first two films, and Takako Fuji, who played Kayako in a number of entries of “Ju-on”. Add...
- 8/29/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Following up on the release of the original Ringu, Kenji Suzuki's novels' were chosen as the basis for a sequel the next year which saw the release of the divisive “Spiral” arrive to conflicting reception even though it took its inspiration from the source novel. After the reaction to the film of attempting something more familiar to a crime-scene investigation that left fans of the ghost action unsatisfied, a proper sequel to the original film was commissioned with Nakata coming back to continue the saga of Sadako and her exploits to be a proper sequel to the original.
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Following the discovery of several bodies, Mai Takano (Miki Takano) is trying to learn more about the death of her professor when she hears stories about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a girl named Sadako (Rie Ino'o), who died many years earlier. Supposedly, anyone watching the...
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Following the discovery of several bodies, Mai Takano (Miki Takano) is trying to learn more about the death of her professor when she hears stories about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a girl named Sadako (Rie Ino'o), who died many years earlier. Supposedly, anyone watching the...
- 5/8/2023
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
By now it’s safe to say that Naomi Watts is a bona fide Scream Queen. After more than a decade in small roles or B movies, the British actress finally found widespread acclaim in 2001 with David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive. She followed this up with a star-making role in Gore Verbinski’s The Ring, and sky-rocketted to international fame. Watts has worked steadily since then, winning coveted parts like Ann Darrow in Peter Jackson’s King Kong, Oscar Nominated roles in 21 Grams and The Impossible, and franchise fame in the Divergent series.
Born in England, Watts and her brother moved around the UK with her Welsh mother before relocating to Australia at the age of 14 where she broke into acting. Despite this international upbringing, Watts is most known in the horror world for starring in American remakes of acclaimed foreign films. Her role in The Ring was just...
Born in England, Watts and her brother moved around the UK with her Welsh mother before relocating to Australia at the age of 14 where she broke into acting. Despite this international upbringing, Watts is most known in the horror world for starring in American remakes of acclaimed foreign films. Her role in The Ring was just...
- 12/21/2022
- by Jenn Adams
- bloody-disgusting.com
Rosie Fletcher Mar 29, 2019
Ringu is a terrifying J-Horror classic and it achieved this by subverting an unwritten rule...
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
In the early 2000s, a new movement in horror hit Western audiences. It came from Japan, was known as "J-Horror" and it was scary as all hell. Though not the first of the new wave, Ringu was definitely the breakout hit of the subgenre and the one that landed big, introducing us to the long haired creepy girl-ghost trope that would quickly become ubiquitous. It certainly wasn’t the first use of this kind of ghostly character in Japanese cinema, but for many viewers, the sodden, jerky, strange Sadako with her giant eye and torn up fingernails was a revelation.
More than 20 years later (the film had an anniversary release this month - though the actual 20th was last year), Ringu still wields immense...
Ringu is a terrifying J-Horror classic and it achieved this by subverting an unwritten rule...
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
In the early 2000s, a new movement in horror hit Western audiences. It came from Japan, was known as "J-Horror" and it was scary as all hell. Though not the first of the new wave, Ringu was definitely the breakout hit of the subgenre and the one that landed big, introducing us to the long haired creepy girl-ghost trope that would quickly become ubiquitous. It certainly wasn’t the first use of this kind of ghostly character in Japanese cinema, but for many viewers, the sodden, jerky, strange Sadako with her giant eye and torn up fingernails was a revelation.
More than 20 years later (the film had an anniversary release this month - though the actual 20th was last year), Ringu still wields immense...
- 3/29/2019
- Den of Geek
With the upcoming release of the creepy Hammer film The Woman in Black on DVD May 22nd, we thought it would be a good time to look back at some of our favorite frightening women from horror films of the past. Believe me; these aren't your average scream queens. These women bite back...hard!
To prime the proverbial pump, we have some honorable mentions for those who just missed the list. Who wasn't creeped out by Cécile De France in Haute Tension (High Tension) or Isabelle Fuhrman in Orphan. I remember looking through my fingers at the woman-thing at the end of [Rec], and Rebecca De Mornay was simply cold-blooded in The Hand that Rocks the Cradle. Rie Ino'o gave us an iconic image in Ring, which Daveigh Chase duplicated in the American remake. And Lina Leandersson was eerie as Ellie in Lat den ratte komma in (Let the Right One In). Hell,...
To prime the proverbial pump, we have some honorable mentions for those who just missed the list. Who wasn't creeped out by Cécile De France in Haute Tension (High Tension) or Isabelle Fuhrman in Orphan. I remember looking through my fingers at the woman-thing at the end of [Rec], and Rebecca De Mornay was simply cold-blooded in The Hand that Rocks the Cradle. Rie Ino'o gave us an iconic image in Ring, which Daveigh Chase duplicated in the American remake. And Lina Leandersson was eerie as Ellie in Lat den ratte komma in (Let the Right One In). Hell,...
- 5/11/2012
- by Doctor Gash
- DreadCentral.com
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