Takashi Shimizu

Let me see.

Jew on the grudge directed by, uh, Takashi Shimizu.

And yeah, I believe that's the director.

Yeah, that's it.

Uh, thank you, gentlemen.

And now it is time for our main event of the evening, 2004's The Grudge, directed by Takashi Shimizu, and starring William Mapother, Clea DuVall, Jason Behr, Bill Pullman, Ted Raimi, and Sarah Michelle Gellar as Karen.

Plot: An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.

Is that that clear? I don't...

We also just saw a bunch of other ones.

Um, if any of you are interested in hearing about The Samurai and The Prisoner by, uh, J-horror star Kiyoshi Kurosawa, as well as Village of Eight Gravestones by Takashi Shimizu, uh, director of the Ju-On, uh, The Grudge franchise.

Saw that.

Saw a whole bunch more.

And what I, you know, this is where it's interesting to, to with every iteration of the ring, every one that we've talked about, you know, the Japanese one, the American, the South Korean, the prequels that you referenced, Jordan, they're all a different take on the core material.

Whereas with Ju-on, we have one filmmaker who's stretching his muscles every time in a different way, right? I mean, I think his name was Takashi Shimizu.

who was the guy who did, you know, and the grudge started, Ju-on started with a short film that was part of an anthology, either series or film.

And he built from there and Sam Raimi saw it and went, wow, come to America and make the American version.