http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445483/
Ju rei starts with chapter 10 and moves down to chapter 1. It is clearly made as a manga comic, you know they are being read “backwards“. As in, you start on the last page, reading from right to left on each and every individual page.
Miho (Azusa Ônishi) is with her friends practising an dancerutine in a poor lighted alley when she hear this squeaky sound, basicly the same sound from Ju-on http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364385/
In the reflecting windows one of her friends sees a dark figure, what does the dark figure want? That is what we will find out, or do we really find out?
Can you spot the dark figure?
The ghosts appears in some scenes for a brief moment (Specially in one scene where it appears for ½ second), in other scenes they are dark blured and seemingly out of focus. This may sound like a misstake in some way, but it is highly intentional and add to the creepy feeling.
Won´t go into detail on all 10 chapters but my favourite most be the third. Grandma Maeda is in her bed at the hospital, she is old and as old people does, she ain´t seeing so well and the director Kôji Shiraishi uses that in a special way.
Mayuko (Hiromi Senno) is there to visit her and when she is about to leave, grandma opens her eyes and with blur eyes she see someone else in the room.
She asks who it is and Mayuko think she isn´t recognising her so she presents herself.
Poor grandma sees blury
This might sound like a not scary scene, but it is. The woman who play grandma is fantastic - won´t say how long that scene goes on, more like an observant watch from one spot only after Mayuko has left, but Kôji doesn´t overdo it. You can say it ends perfectly in 2 ways.
It´s not only the squeaky sound that reminds me off ju-on. Also the house where Maeda lives is in some scenes spot on to Tokunaga residents from Ju-On.
In some scenes it looks like it is shot in a regular video camera. The greyish light brown smoke inviroment around adds to the story. Not as great as Ringu, pretty close to Ju-on. A movie worth to check out if you are into japanese ghost movies.
Some chapters are short, short as in 1-2 minutes and the make perfect sense in the long run.
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- You … try to …. take me?
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Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_eWLwYZvJ0
Trivia
Ju-rei translated to english is “Go in cold” or “the spirit walks in”
Ju-rei also can mean ghost, but the formal word for ghost in japanese is konpaku. Other words to describe ghost are these; rei, bourei, yuurei, youma, go-suto
Jurei however is translated to Long life. Wich is explainable by ghosts having a longer life then a human.
A friend said it IS the same house as in Ju-on.
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