Ju-On The Grudge Analysis

Ju-on: The grudge is one of the biggest film expressing the ideas of cinematic hybridity on globalisation in term of its local cultural and westernized hybridity. Throughout the film, it demonstrated the ideas of socio-cultural in Japan’s society and the national identity of Japanese horror film with the hybridization of western slasher film. The chosen scene in Ju-on: The Grudge is at the ending of the film between Kayako, the vengeful spirit that kill everyone who’ve entered the house; and Rika, the main character of Ju-on. In that scene, Rika being antagonised by Kayako’s spirit where Rika tripped on the ground as frightened by Kayako crawling towards her. Rika finds Kayako gone as she covers and opened her eyes. However, Takeo, the deranged …show more content…
Moreover, the most influential elements in Ju-on is the cinematic and cross-cultural hybridity incarnated by the characters of Kayako and Toshio. With the brand new image of Kayako and Toshio, which not only the physically appearance, but also the psychologically appearance to one’s mind-set of inner fear and anxiety. Furthermore, the translations of Shimizu towards horror cinema, he creates an inquisitive cinematic hybrid – Ju-on: The Grudge, familiar to visual and narrative rhetoric to the enthusiast of Japanese horror cinema with involving the elements of Westernised aesthetic symbolism. In Shimizu’s unique interpretation of horror cinema, he constructs the idea of cinematic hybridity, in term of building the cinematic iconography and cinematography in both US and Japanese horror cinema that the global viewers are well-known with, whereas so called ‘an American and Japanese style’ of horror …show more content…
More than that, Japanese horror film has bring in the ‘technology horror and urban alienation, which it links with technology as tool to reach out for revenge throughout the content of the film. The adaptation and translation of one’s cultural and film identity into another foreign film industry entails the boundaries on cultural transformation in term of particular themes and aesthetics for particular country and