| Overview: | A volunteer home-care worker, Nishina Rika, comes to call on a house occupied by a bed-ridden old lady, Tokunaga Sachie. There is a strange atmosphere in the house and Sachie is obviously terrified of something. On the second floor Rika finds a closet shut with duct tape, in which hides a boy holding a black cat. Startled, she asks the boy's name, and he answers 'Toshio'. Rika sees an angry spirit and faints while Sachie dies, raving in terror. Several days earlier . . . Sachie's son Katsuya returns home from work to find his wife Kazumi collapsed in their bedroom, unresponsive. Sensing something behind him, he turns to see a boy with pure-white skin standing there. The boy's mouth opens, and we hear the scream of a cat. Katsuya's eyes glaze, as if he is in the grip of something. At this point his younger sister, Hitomi, arrives, but he tells her that she's come at a bad time and sends her away. On the day that Rika comes to call, Hitomi is attacked at work by an angry spirit, escapes, and witnesses the death of a security guard who has gone to investigate. She flees to her apartment. The doorbell sounds and she looks through the peep-hole to see her brother Katsuya standing there. But when she opens the door, she finds no one. Sachie's body is discovered, and with her Rika, who is in shock but otherwise unhurt. In the crawlway under the roof are found the bodies of Katsuya and Kazumi. The police investigators, finding that a whole series of people have gone missing from this house, visit the former detective who handled the first of these incidents, in which a man named Saeki Takeo murdered his wife Kayako. Their son, Toshio, who was six years old at the time had never been found. It is the angry and growing spirit of Kayako's vengeance that infects the house. Killing Toyama, his daughter Izumi and Rika's friend Mariko, the ring of horror grows to include all who are involved. The 'Ju-on' spirit now approaches Rika as, with a shudder, she realizes the truth.
With a creative team including Hiroshi Takahashi (writer of "The Ring") and Kiyoshi Kurosawa ("Cure"), "The Grudge" builds on the success of the first two video features, "Ju-on" and "Ju-on 2", in creating an even more terrifying world for the big screen.
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