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Takashi Shimizu

Takashi Shimizu

Highest Rated: 100% The J-Horror Virus (2023)

Lowest Rated: 12% The Grudge 2 (2006)

Birthday: Jul 27, 1972

Birthplace: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture, Japan

For Japanese horror director Takashi Shimizu, it all began at the Film School of Tokyo. Under the tutelage of teacher and fellow genre filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa, he learned many of the techniques that he would go on to later apply in his thriller series of "Ju-On" films. The first two movies actually went straight to video in 2000, but thanks to their growing popularity as cult films, Shimizu was able to make the next entry as a full-fledged theatrical release in 2003. The 2003 film spawned a Japanese sequel and also attracted the attention of Hollywood as part of a great movement by the studios towards practitioners of Asian horror cinema. Translated literally as "The Grudge," the 2004 English language remake annexed portions from a number of the different Japanese films and starred Sarah Michelle Gellar in the title role. Shimizu directed the 2006 Hollywood horror sequel "The Grudge 2," which added a character player by Amber Tamblyn, before handing the directing reins on 2009's "The Grudge 3" to Toby Wilkins. Following his prodigious "Ju-On" and "Grudge" films output, Shimizu began dabbling in 3-D Japanese entries with the 2009 thriller "The Shock Labyrinth" and the 2011 horror film "Rabbit Horror."

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sana Director,
Screenwriter
- 2023
100% No Score Yet The J-Horror Virus Self - 2023
No Score Yet 22% Immersion Director,
Screenwriter
- 2023
20% 27% Homunculus Director - 2021
No Score Yet 43% Suicide Forest Village Director,
Screenwriter
- 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ox-Head Village Director,
Screenwriter
- 2021
50% 47% Howling Village Director,
Screenwriter
- 2019
43% 49% Resident Evil: Vendetta Executive Producer - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Innocent Curse Director - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Innocent Curse (Kodomo tsukai) Director - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Blue Hearts Director - 2017
50% 27% Sadako vs. Kayako Screenwriter - 2016
No Score Yet 53% Kiki's Delivery Service Director,
Screenwriter
- 2014
No Score Yet 33% Flight 7500 Director - 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kataribe Producer - 2014
65% 57% Rigor Mortis Producer - 2013
No Score Yet 26% Tormented Director,
Screenwriter
- 2011
No Score Yet 57% Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl Chinese Professor (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet 18% The Shock Labyrinth Director - 2009
No Score Yet 27% The Grudge 3 Executive Producer - 2009
No Score Yet 27% The Grudge: White Ghost/Black Ghost Writer - 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Foreign Filmmakers' Guide to Hollywood Unknown (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet What Girls Want Director,
Producer
- 2009
No Score Yet 100% Yayoi Kusama: I Love Me Producer - 2008
80% 48% Ten Nights of Dreams Writer - 2006
12% 40% The Grudge 2 Director,
Writer
$39.1M 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet Near Equal Tenmyouya Hisashi Producer - 2006
No Score Yet 62% Reincarnation Director - 2005
36% 50% Marebito Director $13.9K 2004
41% 46% The Grudge Director,
Writer
$110.2M 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dark Tales of Japan Director - 2004
56% 69% Ju-on: The Grudge 2 Director,
Writer
- 2003
80% 63% Ju-on: The Grudge Director,
Screenwriter
$325.7K 2003
No Score Yet 26% Alter Ego Producer - 2002
No Score Yet 28% Tomie: Re-birth Director - 2001
91% 91% Eureka Production Design $46.6K 2000
57% 54% Godzilla 2000 Art Director $10.0M 2000
No Score Yet 80% Ju-on: The Curse 2 Director,
Screenwriter
- 2000
64% 67% Ju-on: The Curse Director,
Screenwriter
- 2000