Takashi ShimizuFilmography

Born:: July 27, 1972 in Maebashi City, Japan
Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: By the time Ju-on found its way to American shores via grey-market bootlegs and Internet-acquired, non-Region 1 DVD releases, it had already gained a near-legendary reputation as being the most terrifying entry into the so-called "J-horror" trend of the late '90s. The slow-burning tale of...Read More

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The Grudge 3

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The ghosts of Kayako and Toshio return to spread terror as the Grudge saga continues in this sequel featuring Saw star Shawnee Smith. Jake (Matthew Knight) may have survived the previous supernatural onslaught, though the sheer terror of his harrowing ordeal has rendered him nearly insane. Read More

2009
Hisashi Tenmyouya: Samurai Nouveau

Crew: Producer

Actors: Hisashi Tenmyouya, Horiyushi III, Kusumi Kawanabe, Yuji Yamashita, Makoto Aida

Synopsis: This documentary takes an in-depth look at the work of artist Hisashi Tenmyouya, an innovator in the realm of NEO-Traditional Japanese Painting. The film details Tenmyouya's unique use of media like gold foils and fine brushes, and offers intimate descriptions from the artist about his personal Read More

2009
Near Equal: Yayoi Kusama

Crew: Producer

Actors: Yayoi Kusama

Synopsis: Director Takako Matsumoto explores the life and work of world-renowned avant-garde artist Yayoi Kasuma in the installment of the ongoing Near Equal documentary film series. By painstakingly documenting Kasuma's creation of fifty monochrome drawings in size F100, Matsumoto offers a rare glimpse Read More

2008
Yayoi Kusama: I Love Me

Crew: Producer

Actors: Yayoi Kusama

Synopsis: This film in the New People Artist Series devotes itself to Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Not content to work in only one medium, the multitalented Kusama has earned the Japanese National Lifetime Achievement Award for her paintings, sculpture, and novels. Yayoi Kusama: I Love Me follows the Read More

2008
Reincarnation

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Boro Yukadinovic, Yayoi Kinoshita, Kippei Shiina, Tetta Sugimoto, Marika Matsumoto

Synopsis: Grudge director Takeshi Shimizu returns to tell this tale of a film crew that descends upon a hotel that was once the scene of a vicious killing spree, only to find that the horrors of the past have a malevolent means of manifesting themselves in the present. Years after a professor slaughtered Read More

11/17/06
The Grudge 2

Crew: Director

Actors: Amber Tamblyn, Arielle Kebbel, Jennifer Beals, Edison Chen, Sarah Roemer

Synopsis: Japanese horror specialist Takashi Shimizu returns to the mythology that terrified audiences the world over with this terror-inducing sequel to the hit 2004 frightener. When a cursed Tokyo home is burned to the ground, the baneful spirit once confined within its walls is suddenly unleased to Read More

10/13/06
Ten Nights of Dreams

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Eleven Japanese filmmakers (including one duo) from all genres and backgrounds gather together under the Nikkatsu banner in order to realize the marvelous stories of novelist Soseki Natsume in this adaptation of the author's enduring episodic tome Ten Nights of Dreams. Each imaginative story takes Read More

2006
Marebito

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Shinya Tsukamoto, Tomomi Miyashita

Synopsis: Terror takes on both human and mechanical form in this independent horror film from Japanese director Takashi Shimizu. Masuoka (Shinya Tsukamoto) is a freelance photographer who has become malignly obsessed with fear. Masuoka believes there is a physical component to terror, and he is determined Read More

12/9/05
The Grudge

Crew: Director, From Screenplay by

Actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, William Mapother, Clea Duvall, KaDee Strickland, Bill Pullman

Synopsis: This American remake of director Takashi Shimizu's popular Japanese movie franchise The Grudge puts Buffy the Vampire Slayer alumna Sarah Michelle Gellar back into the line of supernatural fire. When Karen (Gellar), an American student working with a Japanese health center for college credit Read More

10/22/04
Ju-on: The Grudge

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Misa Uehara, Kanji Tsuda, Yui Ichikawa, Misaki Ito, Megumi Okina, Risa Matsuda

Synopsis: Directed by Takashi Shimizu, The Grudge follows volunteer homecare worker Rika Nishida (Megumi Okina), whose altruism leads her to Chiharu (Yui Ichikawa), a catatonic old woman slowly dying in a home filled with years worth of accumulated filth. Rika's suspicion is aroused when, during the course Read More

7/23/04
Tales of Terror from Tokyo

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this Japanese horror anthology that sets out to prove that fact is infinitely more terrifying than fiction, Ju-on director Takashi Shimizu and Ring 0 director Norio Tsuruta team with thirteen of the hottest up-and-coming directors in Japan to push the boundaries of modern horror. With fifteen Read More

2004
Ju-on: The Grudge 2

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Noriko Sakai, Chiharu Niiyama, Kei Horie, Yui Ichikawa, Shingo Katsurayama

2003
Tomie: Rebirth

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The third installment to Tomie, the Japanese horror series, follows Tomie -- otherwise known as The Girl Who Will Not Die -- to an art student's loft for what she thought was a modeling job. The student makes the unwise decision to murder her, and eventually realizes that Tomie has been haunting Read More

2001
Ju-on

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Writer/director Takashi Shimizu's Ju-on (The Grudge) originally aired on Japanese television, and eventually developed a worldwide cult following as a low-budget horror classic. Shimizu went on to make an extended version of the movie, misleadingly titled Ju-on 2, and a big-budget film based on Read More

2000
Ju-on 2

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Makoto Ashikawa, Yûko Daike, Kaori Fujii

Synopsis: The most terrifying ghost story in screen history continues as Kyoko loses her unborn child in a car accident and finds out to her shock that something is still growing within her in director Takashi Shimizu's sequel to the groundbreaking horror hit Ju-On: The Grudge. Kyoko is a pregnant actress Read More

2000
Blonde Kwaidan

Crew: Director