Takashi Shimizu
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."
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Takashi Shimizu
Filmography
Movies
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100% | No Score Yet | The J-Horror Virus | Self | - | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sana |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2023 |
No Score Yet |
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Immersion |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2023 |
No Score Yet |
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Homunculus | Director | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet |
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Suicide Forest Village |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ox-Head Village |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2021 |
50% |
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Howling Village |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2019 |
43% |
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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 |
48% |
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Sadako vs. Kayako | Screenwriter | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet |
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Kiki's Delivery Service |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2014 |
No Score Yet |
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Flight 7500 | Director | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kataribe | Producer | - | 2014 |
65% |
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Rigor Mortis | Producer | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet |
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Tormented |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2011 |
No Score Yet |
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Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl | Chinese Professor (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet |
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The Shock Labyrinth | Director | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet |
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The Grudge 3 | Executive Producer | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet |
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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 |
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Yayoi Kusama: I Love Me | Producer | - | 2008 |
80% |
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Ten Nights of Dreams | Writer | - | 2006 |
12% |
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The Grudge 2 |
Director, Writer |
$39.1M | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Near Equal Tenmyouya Hisashi | Producer | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet |
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Reincarnation | Director | - | 2005 |
36% |
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Marebito | Director | $13.9K | 2004 |
40% |
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The Grudge |
Director, Writer |
$110.2M | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dark Tales of Japan | Director | - | 2004 |
55% |
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Ju-on: The Grudge 2 |
Director, Writer |
- | 2003 |
80% |
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Ju-on: The Grudge |
Director, Screenwriter |
$325.7K | 2003 |
No Score Yet |
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Alter Ego | Producer | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet |
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Tomie: Re-birth | Director | - | 2001 |
91% |
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Eureka | Production Design | $46.6K | 2000 |
57% |
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Godzilla 2000 | Art Director | $10.0M | 2000 |
No Score Yet |
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Ju-on: The Curse 2 |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2000 |
64% |
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Ju-on: The Curse |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2000 |