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Takashi Shimizu - what members say

The Grudge review by A customer from UK

Customer Review 23 June 2008
...d wrings the chills out of every frame. This is most unequivocably a tribute to Takashi Shimizu, whose flawless direction exploits the theme with discipline and craft. I admit... Read customer review

Dark Tales Of Japan review by DJM666 from Walsall, England

A poor selection of stories 2 June 2006
...A selection of 5 short stories from five Japanese directors (including Takashi Shimizu(writer & director of The Grudge movies) & Norio Tsuruta(director of Ring 0)). The first ... Read customer review

Marebito review by HumanHighway from Bristol, England

Shimizu's masterpiece 4 September 2007
...died. You'd never think such an obscene and adventerous film could stem from Takashi Shimizu, after his countless Grudge remakes i began to wonder how much of a filmmaking ... Read customer review

Takashi Shimizu - filmography

Shock Labyrinth on DVD (2009)
Starring: Ai Maeda, Yuya Yagira, Suzuki Matsuo
Director: Takashi Shimizu
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Ten years ago Yuki disappeared at the amusement park haunted house. One rainy night she suddenly returns, and faints in front of her shocked friends. Her friends rush her to the hospital, but what awaits them is an endless labyrinth of unspeakable horrors.

45% from 277 members

The Grudge 2 on DVD (2006)
Starring: Amber Tamblyn, Jennifer Beals, Sarah Michelle Gellar
Director: Takashi Shimizu
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When Aubrey Davis (Amber Tamblyn) learns her sister Karen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) has been hospitalized, she immediately flies to Tokyo. Once there, she learns her sister's horrifying story and discovers that the fatal supernatural curse has been unleashed. Now, as the grudge spreads across the ..read more »

53% from 13,203 members

Reincarnation on DVD (2005)
Starring: Yuka, Karina, Kippei Shiina
Director: Takashi Shimizu
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A Japanese horror film director starts shooting a film about a real life mass murder case that took place in the 1970s. An actress begins to experience the murders as though they are happening around her and other bizarre things start occurring on the set. She discovers an 8mm camera that she ..read more »

59% from 1,093 member

Dark Tales Of Japan on DVD (2004)
Starring: Yoko Maki, Kayoko Shiraishi, Teruyuki Kagawa
Director: Takashi Shimizu, Norio Tsurut
Certificate:
A collection of Japanese short horror tales.

43% from 222 members

The Grudge on DVD (2004)
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, Clea DuVall
Director: Takashi Shimizu
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Karen, an exchange student who agrees to cover for a nurse, unknowingly enters a Tokyo house, unaware that a dark secret lies within. The house is cursed with a violent plague that causes those individuals who enter the building to die within a fit of rage. As more and more people become victims to ..read more »

56% from 39,108 members

Marebito on DVD (2004)
Starring: Shinya Tsukamoto, Tomomi Miyashita
Director: Takashi Shimizu
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Masuoka (Shinya Tsukamoto) is a cameraman possessed by the craving to understand fear. In particular, he obsesses over his footage of a grisly suicide in the subway. Returning to the scene to better comprehend the dead man's reasoning, he opens a doorway into a bizarre, cavernous underworld. Here ..read more »

51% from 1,082 member

Ju-On - The Grudge 2 on DVD (2003)
Starring: Chiharu Nîyama, Noriko Sakai, Chiharu Niyama
Director: Takashi Shimizu
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Takashi Shimizu returns to writing and directing a sequel to his own Ju-On movie, expanding the macabre mythology of the ghostly little boy Toshio, who has a few more spine-tingling surprises in store...

56% from 3,425 members

The Grudge on DVD (2002)
Starring: Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito, Misa Uehara
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Certificate:
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A normal everyday house is haunted by events from the past when a woman and child were murdered here. Now, everyone who sets foot in the place becomes marked and those who have been tainted begin to die.

62% from 11,816 members

Tales Of Terror (2 discs) on DVD
Starring: Takashi Shimzu, Norio Tsuruta, Hiroshi Takahashi
Director: Takashi Shimizu, Hiroshi Takash, Norio Tsurut
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A collection of 33 short ghost films from Japan's horror elite. With only five minutes of scare time each, the directors have had to condense their most terrifying ideas for maximum impact.

43% from 53 members

Takashi Shimizu facts

5 most recent films

Shock Labyrinth - 2.5 stars
The Grudge 2 - 2.5 stars
Reincarnation - 3.0 stars
Dark Tales Of Japan - 2.0 stars
The Grudge - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Grudge - 3.0 stars
Reincarnation - 3.0 stars
The Grudge - 3.0 stars
Ju-On - The Grudge 2 - 3.0 stars
The Grudge 2 - 2.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Tales Of Terror - 2.0 stars
Dark Tales Of Japan - 2.0 stars
Shock Labyrinth - 2.5 stars
Marebito - 2.5 stars
The Grudge 2 - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Yui Ichikawa - 4 times - show films
Takashi Shimzu - 3 times - show films
Hiroshi Takahashi - 3 times - show films
Kei Horie - 3 times - show films
Norio Tsuruta - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Norio Tsuruta - 4 times - show films
Hiroshi Takash - 3 times - show films
Norio Tsurut - 2 times - show films
Hideo Nakata - 1 times - show films