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.
Audience Engagement
699 audience reviews — more than 95% of Japan films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 88th percentile among Japan films.
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 2001–2003 Japan Window
Ju-on: The Grudge holds position #132 of 247 Japan films in the 2001–2003 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2000s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in Japan, 1020 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Ju-on: The Grudge premiered alongside 81 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 1h 32m runtime, production spent $38K per minute on screen and earned $40K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 81 other Japan films in 2002.
The 1462nd Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Ju-on: The Grudge, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- panic · 3
- restart · 2
- egomania · 2
- primal fear · 1
- dying and death · 10
- japan · 454
- remake · 101
- supernatural · 89
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 |