Conclusion

Autor: Marisa C. Hayes
Rok vydání: 2017
DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781911325291.003.0006
Popis: This concluding chapter highlights how, despite the mixed critical reception it received outside Japan initially, Ju-on: The Grudge (2002) went on to become a founding pillar of the contemporary J-horror movement as both a successful domestic product and a popular international export. Alongside the Ringu films, it inspired new explorations of haunted technology and cyclical violence, while establishing a familiar look for the female Japanese ghost that international audiences would come to recognise instantly. Indeed, the characters of Kayako and Toshio would also become horror icons in their own right. At the turn of the millennium, Takashi Shimizu offered audiences a lasting glimpse of psychological hauntings, old as time yet packaged in the form of contemporary troubles and very real household devices. Although aided by Japan's lore of the supernatural and the country's rich array of performing arts, it is Shimizu's mastery of sound and virtuosic camera movements that creates an architectural odyssey within the horrors of the home and other intimate spaces.
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