School Ghost Story G

School Ghost Story G (1998)

学校の怪談G

A quartet of ghost stories taking place at school: a girl who drowned in the pool begins terrorizing the students by eating their food; two girls are attacked by a mysterious woman; a boy answers a mysterious ringing phone he finds in the street; when Kazumi and her friends experiment on psychic abilities, something malevolent attacks.

Date of release
1998-09-27
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (14)
Runtime
1h 11m
Genres
TV Movie, Horror
Director
Takashi Shimizu, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Tetsu Maeda
Collection
School Ghost Story Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Katasumi and 4444444444 are two 1998 Japanese short horror films written and directed by Takashi Shimizu. The films are known for spawning Shimizu's horror franchise Ju-On, which was in turn adapted into the American horror franchise The Grudge.

Production

Takashi Shimizu was working as an assistant director and first got involved in what would become the Ju-On franchise when filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who was teaching a filmmaking class attended by Shimizu, was impressed by a three-minute short film Shimizu had written and directed.

Shimizu wrote several scripts, each roughly 30 minutes in length, only to be asked to make two brief three-minute segments as the television movie was intended to be an anthology of short films. After being edited together, the collection of four short films (one directed by Kurosawa) was titled Gakkô no kaidan G.

While it is often claimed that the subsequent feature-length films Ju-On: The Curse and Ju-On: The Curse 2 are remakes of Katasumi and 4444444444, Shimizu has said that the two short films are actually precursors to the franchise, and that they act "almost like the true prequel of the story".

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