Takashi Shimizu
Takashi Shimizu is a Japanese filmmaker. He is best known for being the creator of the Ju-On franchise, directing the first four installments, in addition to directing the first two installments in its American remake franchise, The Grudge. According to film scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon, Shimizu is "one of a new breed of Japanese horror directors" who prefers to "suggest menace and violence rather than directly depict it".
Photo: Takashi_Shimizu.jpg: Saskia Batugowski from Ixelles derivative work: RanZag (..., CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
Defining films
Films by decade
Sana: Play with Me
The Mouths
Sana: Let Me Hear
Immersion
Sana
Ox-Head Village
Homunculus
Suicide Forest Village
Howling Village
