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[jrgdrawing-real]

Ju-on. The Grudge

#my art #horror #horror art #art #dark art #digital art #creepy #macabre #scary #the grudge #ju on #ju-on #j horror #ghosts #paranormal #horror movies

[kinasin]

Ju-On: The Grudge

#Ju-On: The Grudge #JU-ON #THE GRUDGE #horror #horror gif #gif

[cinefiliz]

JU-ON: THE GRUDGE, 2002.

#ju-on #ju on #the grudge #ju on icons #ju on the grudge #film #movies #film icons #movies icons #horror film #takashi shimizu #horroredit #filmedit #dailyhorrorfilms #2000s movies #2000s #horror films #horror movies icons #horror icons #random icons #icons #horror #horror moodboard #ju on moodboard #the grudge icons #the grudge moodboard

[marril96]

Ju-On: The Curse (2000)

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[esmiephan]

Why are most of the Japanese ghosts 'victimized women'? - the feminist answer to Japan's sexist society

Let's talk a little about Japan and its horror culture. The "pale-dressed woman with black hair" ghost steriotype isn't an American invention, it came from the Japanese culture. This ghost is called Onryō (怨霊), a vengeful spirit that comes back from the dead to sick revenge against his/her killer or humanity itself. Onryō spirits mostly had violence deaths (murder, accident or suicide) and/or unfair lives. They are characterized as a pale person, with white clothes and a long, black hair. Some of the Onryō ghosts are marked with the violence they suffered before death. Male Onryōs can be found in the Japanese culture (cinema, mangas, animes, games and theatre), however, they are very rare and unusual, most of the Japanese ghosts are female. Female victims abused by men. After the iconic 2002 "The Ring", an American Remake of the Japanese best-seller Ringu, the Onryō image was introduced to the whole world.

Some of the most classic Japanese ghosts are: Oiwa, Okiku, Sadako Yamamura, Kayako Saeki, the Black Cat ghosts and Kuchisake-onna. All women. I will talk about them little by little and explain about their feminist essence. The Japanese culture was always male chauvinist and patriarchal, specially in the past. Women were treated as objects of male pleasure, they couldn't have any profission unless prostitution or cleaning/cooking. Men were the masters, women were the slaves. Many Japanese temples tought men that sexual activities with women was disgusting and exhausting, something that sucked vital energy. Sex with women should be ONLY for reproduction. It was a mysoginistic society, where the female body was faced as something vulgar and immoral. Women should mary as soon as possible (15-16 years old or less) or else they'll be called 'old whores'. Women couldn't even play in Kabuki shows (japanese traditional theatre) because it was considered immoral, the female roles were played by men. Rape, abuse (emotional and physical) and murder caused by men could be justified if their female victims were considered immoral women. Until today, women are oversexualized in Japanese culture specially if they are very young, hentais are a big example. There are Japanese companies that hire only men, there are victimized women that are still unheard and judged.

This male chauvinist opression has been answered for centuries with the legends of onryōs, curses and female revenge. The Japanese folklore and pop culture is full of feminists manifestations against the patriarchal society of Japan.

Oiwa (大岩)

This character appeared for the first time in the Kabuki best-seller show "Yotsuya Kaidan" (四谷怪談). She was a poor woman married to a greedy selfish man, Iemon. He was planning to marry a rich woman, but for this, he needed his wife to be all alone and defenseless, so he killed Oiwa's father. After that, he poisoned Oiwa with the intention of killing her, but she didn't die: her face melted and her hair felt. Iemon hired a man to rape his wife, then he could kill her with the excuse that she "cheated on him". However, the man was so disgusted with Oiwa's face that he couldn't rape her. Iemon, without any other choice, killed both Oiwa and the man he hired, throwing their bodies into the river. Iemon married a rich woman, but in his honeymoon, Oiwa's spirit came back from the dead and murdered both of them. The legend says she is still hauting her old village, and you get cursed by her spirit if you listen to her story (yes, I curses all of you😈😈).

Okiku (お菊元気)

The original story that inspired Koji Suzuki's Ringu series. Okiku was a poor employee that worked for a creepy rapey samurai named Aoyama Tessan. He wanted Okiku to be his lover, but she always denied it. One day, Aoyama planned to trap her: he gave her a closed bag with 9 coins, but he told her that there were 10 coins and that she should take care of them. Naïvely, Okiku took care of the bag for some days, until Aoyama came back and checked the coins. Again, there were always 9 coins, but he lied to her saying that there were 10, an employee couldn't doubt of her master's word so she never checked it before. Aoyama accused Okiku of stealing one of his coins. Desperate, she counted the coins: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9... over! No 10! Aoyama threatened Okiku, saying she could be spared if she agreed to be his lover. She denied for the last time. The samurai tortured the poor girl and throw her alive inside of a well. Okiku's ghost came back every single night to torment the samurai, forcing him to committ suicide. After Aoyama's death, a buddhist monk bought the land and freed Okiku's ghost after counting 'til 10, bringing her peace.

Kuchisake-onna (口裂け女)

The legend of Kuchisake-onna tells about this woman with a cutted mouth. There are a lot of versions about the legend, but the most famous one is where she was murdered by her husband, who, droven by jeaously because of her beauty, cutted her mouth and skin with scissors. Kuchisake-onna appears in dark lone streets at night, asking you if she is beautiful. If you say she is, she will cut your mouth to be just like her. If you say she isn't, she will just kill you.

Black Cat - 1968 movie (黒猫)

A classic Japanese horror movie. A mother and a daughter were raped and killed by a group of samurais, and now they are vengeful blood-lustful ghosts. They hallucinate the samurais and everyone near their home with a black cat, that guide them to their house. They seduce them and kill them.

Sadako Yamamura (山村 貞子)

The most iconic Onryō and Japanese horror symbol of all. Sadako's story suffered retcoms during the Ring franchise. In the 1991s novel, she is a young intersex person (she identifies herself as female) who grew up in a toxic family, being explored because of her psychic powers. At 19s, she is raped by a doctor named Jotaro and throw alive inside of the well. In 1998s Ringu, she was a cruel sadistic child who murdered a journalist and ruined her mother's life. She was murdered by her step-father that wanted to save the world from her evil, but she became a vengeful ghost. In the 2000s Ringu 0, Sadako is portrayed as a victim, since she can't control her powers and is afraid of her biological dad, a sea demon. She was drugged and isolated by her step-father during her life, emotionally abused and explored in her adult life, collectively beaten after being exposed to an old scandal and lated 30 years to die inside of the well. In every version of the story, she uses her nensha and telepathic powers to record a videotape that murders their victims in seven days. As technology is her weapon, she crawls out of people's TV (except in the novel).

Kayako Saeki (佐伯 伽椰子)

Based in Oiwa's legend, Kayako Saeki was a lonely neglected girl that married a jeaously abusive husband, Takeo Saeki. She had a kid with him, Toshio. We have more details about their relantionship in the first 2000s movie Ju-On: The Curse, where Takeo abuses his wife and kid more than one month before the curse started. When Takeo discovered Kayako had feelings for her childhood friend, Kobayashi ��� who ironically was Toshio's teacher –, he broke her neck, murdered their black-cat, their young child and even killed Kobayashi's pregnant wife. Their suffering was so cruel that it started a deadly curse inside of the house, which killed Takeo, the teacher and curses everyone and anyone that enters it.

With all of these stories, and many other legends about monstrous female creatures and ghosts, we can notice that Japanese women always had a grudge against their opressive misogynistic society. Most of the horror Japanese movies portray women that were victimized by men and now are searching for revenge. If their society thinks their suffering and death is OK or justificable, then, they have no other choice than searching for their own justice.

Japanese society improved significantly during the years. Women now have voice, power, intelligence and place in the Japanese society. Divorces are permitted, they have laws against misogynistic violence, women can work and be solo mothers, majority of cultural and intelectual institutions are occuped by women. Japanese society was always impressive, intelligent and productive, but they still needed to be socially envolved. And it is working.

Social evolution surelly doesn't depend on movies or legends, but fictional works and culture does influence people for the good. It is because of humanity's fights, discussions and progress that our world, including Japan that once was one of the most sexists couples ever, that we are progressing and giving voice/space/respect to minories. We don't need female ghosts to avenge women or to "teach men", we need to look at our interior and our own mistakes, and learn how to fix them.

#japanese ghost #japanese movies #japanese society #Japan #🎌🇯🇵❤️ #sadako yamamura #kayako saeki #kuchisake-onna #okiku #kuroneko #ringu #ju-on #ju-on: the grudge #oiwa #yotsuya kaidan #onryō #feminism #female ghosts #misoginy

[scenes-inside-my-head]

The Grudge (2004)

#movie frames #movies #film #the grudge #ju-on #2000s #00s #takashi shimizu #horror movie #horror #ghost #scary #kayako #kayako saeki

[tvmilfs]

#the other mother #coraline #kayako saeki #ju-on #the grudge #hgbracket

[infidel-ity]

Ju-On: The Grudge (2002)

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[thewizardlywyrm]

I made another little love letter to my favourite horror movies/games/creatures and am hoping to do a whole series over time! Love me some spoops! 

This time it’s Kayako Saeki of the Ju-On/Grudge series ( I really like her design for the older Western remakes but I might also draw her OG form, too! They’re both really good! ) !

#Ju-On #Ju-On The Grudge #The Grudge #Horror #J-Horror #Japanese Horror #Kayako #Kayako Saeki #fanart #doodles

[kings-lone]

I had a dream that someone drew Sadako fan art for me and captioned it “drew Kayako 🥰” or smth like that and I commented “uhm actually that’s Sadako Yamamura from Ringu, NOT Kayako Saeki from Ju-On 🤓☝🏻”

So uhm that inspired me to finally make a comparison sheet between Kayako and Sadako in my AU LOL

This is also good for differentiating them in their canon universes as well and interpreting them in my own art style, but hell yea AU Kayako and Sadako ftw

#kings lone #digital art #Kayako #kayako saeki #ju-on #ju on #the grudge #ju on the grudge #ringu #ringu 1998 #the ring #the ring movie #sadako #sadako yamamura

[speedou]

Ju-on: Black Ghost (Mari Asato, 2009)

#film #jfilm #japan #japanese film #japanese cinema #Ju-on: Black Ghost #JuonBlackGhost #Ju-on #Juon #呪怨 黒い少女 #Ju-on : Kuroi shôjo #JuonKuroishojo #Mari Asato #MariAsato #Asato Mari #AsatoMari

[kinasin]

Ju-On: The Grudge 2

#Ju-On #the grudge #horror #gif #movies #films #Ju-On: The Grudge 2

[datenightfright]

Can you do kayako and sadako with a protective/househusband boyfriend in poly?

I hope you don't mind that this one got away from me.

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There were quirks to dating Onryo that you wouldn't think about with a normal human. As a general, they were vengeful, possessive, and jealous. Not to mention you now had to live with the fact that you'd never be truly warm again. Or be able to have normal human relationships ever again, but it was worth it, in your opinion. You were lucky, you manage to get two to fall in love with you.

Your day starts normally enough, the alarm goes off and you groan, rolling over and ducking your head under the blankets. You didn't want to go to work today. You were just about to fall back asleep when you feel someone put pressure on your back. "Really, buddy?" You ask, rolling over and peeking over the covers. Toshio had come to get you, as he had every weekday morning since Kayako had decided to spare you. He tugs at your pajama shirt, it's time to get up. With another groan you manage to roll out of bed and dramatically crawl on the floor to your closet. Toshio never giggles, or smiles, or really does anything other than look scared, but the change in the air tells you that he finds your antics amusing.

Once you right yourself you shoo him out of the room, so you can get dressed. You go about your morning routine, still unsettled by how unnaturally quiet your home is. When your teeth are brushed, your hair combed, and your tie is perfectly knotted, you come downstairs, the smell of breakfast making your tummy grumble.

"Morning." You mutter, only to be met with silence. The small kitchen table looks pitifully bare, considering a family of four is going sit down to have breakfast, but the dead didn't eat. You ruffle Toshio's hair as you pass by him, the young boy not much for affection. You then kiss Kayako, because this morning was her morning to be kissed first. Then you kiss Sadako, making sure to linger a few moments longer in her kiss since she was second. Tomorrow, you'll do the same thing for Kayako. Balance, after all, was the key to this relationship.

You check the news on your phone while you eat. It was hard to get services at your home, seeing as everyone knew the house was cursed. The superstition was so bad you didn't even have neighbors. Not that you blamed them, the house DID have a certain energy.

You finish breakfast, kiss everyone good by, even Toshio, and then head off to work. It's another boring day as an accountant for a Japanese law-firm, looking at numbers until your eyes were crossed. The only few interruptions coming from the new intern. A girl with a huge crush on you. In your defense, you'd told her you weren't interested when she first asked you out. You couldn't give her a good answer when she asked you why you wouldn't go out with her, so she'd made up her mind that you were just shy. A bad move on her part really. You'd let her down gently, then hard, then you'd been plain rude to her, but apparently she hadn't gotten the hint. It was unfortunate really, the girls were just waiting to eat her up.

At the end of the day, you called home. No one answered, whenever anyone of the ghosts tried, they only messed with the signal. You wait for the answering service. "Hey," you say after the beep, "I'm going to stop by the bar," You tell them. "Pick up my usual order. Love you guys." You say good bye to everyone, making small talk with your boss, then head to the bar.

As a creature of habit, you didn't have to place your order at the bar. You had been going there once a week after work for nearly three years. You hadn't changed your order once. As such, once you got there, you gave the bartender your money, and grabbed the bag of food. Stepping back out onto the street, you saw her, cringing. She was wearing a garish yellow, smiling pitifully at you. The intern from work. He heaved a sigh, knowing what's coming next.

Ignoring her entirely as she chased you to your car you only stopped to acknowledge her when she slammed your door shut before you could get in. "Why are you so cruel?" She asked. You turned to her, giving her your best glare. You could see dark shadows out of the corner of your eye, hear Kayako's death rattle. You tried to save this woman, you did, but she was too stubborn for her own good. "I tried to tell you to stay away." You sneer. "I tried to warn you, but you just didn't want to listen, this is what you get." She looks at you slightly terrified, turning when Kayako's groan finally reaches her ears. The poor thing didn't even have time to scream.

You sigh and shake your head, getting into the car. Later there will be questions. You'll be taken to the police station, some smart ass detective is going to figure you out, come pay a visit, and then you won't be able to save him either. Buckling up and adjusting your review, you spot the girls and Toshio in the back seat. "What am I going to do with you all?" You ask, flashing them a smile.

#kayako saeki #sadako yamamura #the ring #the grudge #ju-on #ringu #slasher imagine

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Toshio aquired >:3c

#silly talka #silly nendo #ju-on #ringu #the grudge #custom nendoroid #custom nendos #on mobile

[artofalexle]

Been sitting on THIS idea for 6 years, finally got around to to drawing this comic.

#Ju-on #the grudge #Kayoko #comic

[scenes-inside-my-head]

The Grudge (2004)

#movie frames #movies #film #the grudge #ju-on #2000s #00s #takashi shimizu #horror #horror movie #yoko maki