Post a message

Is there a new breed of Japanese horror film?
There’s certainly the work of Hideo Nakata, whose 1998 ’’Ring’’ made a mountain of money in Asia and was remade in Hollywood as ’’The Ring,’’ with Naomi Watts.
So far, ’’The Ring’’ has yielded a prequel, two sequels and a couple of Japanese television series.
In a sense, it has also yielded ’’Ju-On: The Grudge,’’ a 2003 film by Takashi Shimizu that shares the tone, look and narrative techniques of Nakata’s film. (Shimizu is also filming an (...)