JU-ON: BLACK GHOST and JU-ON: WHITE GHOST – the latest installments in Japan’s JU-ON franchise – hit theaters simultaneously in their native country in 2009. Now they are coming to the U.S. together as well. Well Go USA will release the two films on DVD and Blu-ray as a double feature dubbed JU-ON: BLACK / WHITE on May 17. No specs have been announced yet.
JU-ON: WHITE GHOST, also known as THE GRUDGE: OLD LADY IN WHITE, is written and directed by Ryûta Miyake. At a certain house, a son brutally and methodically murders all five of his family members after failing the bar exam. He then hangs himself, leaving behind a cassette recorder at the scene on which he can be heard saying, “Go… Go now,” in unison with a strange female voice. That voice belongs to a victim of the family massacre, the elementary school best friend of teenager Akane. Once on a visit, Akane saw evidence that her friend was being sexually abused by her brother, but was tragically unable to help her. When the two were young they wore yellow hats and red satchels to school. Akane, who has a strong sense of the supernatural, soon begins seeing visions of a female ghost wearing a yellow hat and red satchel.
JU-ON: BLACK GHOST, also known as THE GRUDGE: GIRL IN BLACK, is written and directed by Mari Asato. A nurse named Yuko has a strange experience while taking care of a girl named Fukie. Test results show a cyst inside Fukie’s body, but that cyst is actually the leftover grudge from a baby who was unable to be born. The cyst’s grudge spreads to Fukie and everyone around her. Soon Fukie’s father goes mad and commits murder. Fukie’s mother, Kiwako looks to her sister, Mariko who has special spiritual powers for help. They agree to get rid of the unborn spirit within Yukie and Mariko succeeds. Little do they know that the worst of the grudge is yet to come.
Pre-order JU-ON: BLACK / WHITE on DVD HERE or Blu-ray HERE.
THE GRUDGE star Sarah Michelle Gellar