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Yūya Ozeki is a Actor Japonais born on 5 june 1996
Yuya Ozeki (尾関 優哉, Ozeki Yūya) (born June 5, 1996) is a Japanese child actor. He is most known for his role as Toshio in the Ju-on series of films. He has worked with Takashi Matsuyama and Takako Fuji on all theatrical releases of Ju-on and The Grudge. It is stated in the commentary on The Grudge DVD that Ozeki is afraid of cats, which made it hard for him to do the scenes in which he had to hold the cat playing Toshio's pet cat. Ozeki has a stepsister who lives in Port Orchard, Washington. He travels between Washington and Japan. He enjoys playing the piano and swimming.
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The Grudge 2 (2006)
, 1h42Directed by Takashi Shimizu
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about children, Seafaring films, Transport films, Ghost films
Actors Amber Tamblyn, Arielle Kebbel, Jennifer Beals, Edison Chen, Matthew Knight, Sarah Roemer
Rating51%
In Japanese society, it is said a curse is created when a person dies in the grip of a powerful rage or sorrow. Those who encounter the evil supernatural force are consumed by it, the curse is born repeatedly and spreads. The original victims of the curse, the Saeki family, haunt their Tokyo suburban house as ghosts and kill anyone who enters. Housewife Kayako Saeki was murdered by her husband Takeo after he discovered she loved another man, their son Toshio and pet cat Mar also being murdered, before Takeo was hung by Kayako’s ghost. In the first film, American social worker Karen Davis tried to burn the house down to stop the curse, but failed, finding herself hospitalised and haunted by Kayako. The film’s chronology is told in a non-linear fashion, taking place in 2004 and 2006 respectfully.
The Grudge (2004)
, 1h31Directed by Takashi Shimizu
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about children, Seafaring films, Transport films, Ghost films
Actors Sarah Michelle Prinze, Jason Behr, William Mapother, KaDee Strickland-Behr, Clea DuVall, Bill Pullman
Roles Toshio Saeki
Rating59%
The Grudge describes a curse that is born when someone dies in the grip of a powerful rage or extreme sorrow. The curse is an entity created where the person died. Those who encounter this evil supernatural force die; and the curse is reborn repeatedly, passed from victim to victim in an endless, growing chain of horror. The following events are explained in their actual order; the original film is presented in a non-linear narrative.
Ju-on: The Grudge (2003)
, 1h32Directed by Takashi Shimizu
Origin Japon
Genres Horror
Themes Films about children, Ghost films
Actors Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito, Yui Ichikawa, Takako Fuji, Misa Uehara (actress, born 1983), Yūya Ozeki
Roles Toshio Saeki
Rating66%
The film’s story takes place over a number of years and like the other Ju-on films, is told in a non-linear order in six segments. The segments are presented in the following order: Rika (理佳), Katsuya (勝也), Hitomi (仁美), Toyama (遠山), Izumi (いづみ), and Kayako (伽椰子). The synopsis shall be told in the chronological order of events.
Ju-on: The Grudge 2 (2003)
, 1h35Directed by Takashi Shimizu
Origin Japon
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about children, Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality, Ghost films
Actors Noriko Sakai, Kei Horie, Yui Ichikawa, Chiharu Niiyama, Kaoru Mizuki, Takako Fuji
Roles Toshio Saeki
Rating63%
Like the rest of the Ju-on series, the film takes place over a period of time, and is told in a non-linear order as six overlapping vignettes. The overarching plot involves the haunted house of the deceased Saeki family, whose brutal murders caused by Kayako Saeki’s crush on another man led to the creation of a curse. Anyone who enters the house will be cursed and eventually consumed by the ghosts of the Saekis. The vignettes are presented in the following order: Kyoko (京子), Tomoka (朋香), Megumi (恵), Keisuke (圭介), Chiharu (千春), and Kayako (伽椰子).
Ju-On: The Curse 2 (2000)
, 1h16Directed by Takashi Shimizu
Origin Japon
Genres Horror
Themes Films about children, Ghost films
Actors Takako Fuji, Takashi Matsuyama, Tomohiro Kaku, Yūko Daike, Denden, Yūya Ozeki
Rating60%
Like the first film, Ju-on 2 is split into six vignettes, the first two being taken from the first. The segments are presented in the following order: Kayako (伽椰子), Kyoko (響子), Tatsuya (達也), Kamio (神尾), Nobuyuki (信之), and Saori (沙織).
Directed by Takashi Shimizu
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors David Gallagher, Jake Weber, Yūya Ozeki, Teruyuki Kagawa, Marielle Jaffe, Alison Lohman
Roles Hazuki
The movie follows a young woman, who has a long-term phobia of the dark and a strange scar on her wrist that looks like a Japanese symbol. She is convinced that it is the source of her problems, but her father says it’s a simple scar. She visits multiple doctors and no one is able to help her, until she meets an expert in the paranormal who reveals that it is a terrible Japanese curse. She discovers that two days after her scar bleeds, someone dies in the dark…