Word: shimizu
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...daughter drowning in sorrow and fear, will star Jennifer Connelly; Mechanic is the producer, and Walter Salles (Central Station) is the director. And Ju-on, Japan's top fright franchise (with four episodes) since The Ring, gets its Hollywood remake in October, with the original films' auteur, Takashi Shimizu, calling the shots and Sarah Michelle Gellar starring for producer Sam (Spider-Man) Raimi...
...sharpest post-Ring cycle is Ju-on, two features on video and two on film written and directed by Takashi Shimizu. They detail the mischief that awaits anyone entering a house haunted by the ghosts of a man, his murdered wife and his son Toshio. The Ju-on series is a superbly orchestrated symphony of fear. A girl crawls under bedsheets to escape the wraiths and feels a tug on her leg; she lifts the covers to see a grimacing ghoul, climbing closer...
Hollywood studios often remake foreign films but rarely with the original directors. Yet Nakata is directing The Ring 2 and Shimizu is remaking Ju-on (as The Grudge). They may well be the first Japanese directors to make major studio films in America. Another Nakata film--Dark Water, his best--is being remade by Walter Salles, with Jennifer Connelly as a mother who gets traumatized and very wet in a haunted apartment building...
...Despite the taunt, most experts consider an al-Qaeda strike on Japan unlikely, due to the nation's tight immigration policies and stepped-up anti-terrorism efforts. At greater risk are Japanese abroad. "Embassies are hiring extra security," says Shinsuke Shimizu, director of the Foreign Ministry's International Counter-terrorism Cooperation division, "and Japanese residents in Southeast Asia are making contingency plans." The Japanese government has even distributed animated videotapes to expat Japanese with advice on how to survive a kidnapping or hijacking. Bin Laden has given Japan something it has happily lacked since World War II: an enemy...
...your bedroom door and five tough Thais stand outside, ready to make your face a map of welts. Pang never gets much momentum going here; he's happy to synopsize the genre conventions. And thriller directors never tire of "referencing" the shower scene from Hitchcock's Psycho. In Takashi Shimizu's The Grudge, a girl steps into the shower and starts washing her hair. As she rubs in the shampoo, she reaches to the back of her head and feels ... a third hand! It's clammy, it's dead and, when she whirls around in fright, it's gone...