Japan Synopsis
呪怨
“When a grudge from the dead passes to the living – Who is safe?”
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.
The 2001–2003 Japan Window
247 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. Ju-on: The Grudge sits at position #132.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Ju-on: The Grudge. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Oz Company
The 2000s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 2000s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Ju-on: The Grudge premiered. 1020 total titles in this decade from Japan.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 1h 32m runtime, production spent $38K per minute on screen and earned $40K per minute back.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #2,711 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (41st percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.2 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Horror productions specifically: #82 of 391 (top 21%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Oz Company, Xanadeux Company, Pioneer LDC, Nikkatsu Corporation |
| Runtime | 1h 32m |
| Release Date | October 18, 2002 |
| IMDb | tt0364385 |