List of The Grudge characters
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This is a list of characters from the American Grudge film series.
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[edit] Karen Davis
Karen Davis (portrayed by Sarah Michelle Gellar) travelled to Tokyo, Japan with her boyfriend Doug (Jason Behr) as a foreign exchange student. During her studies in Tokyo, Karen decided to volunteer as a house maid for a social worker program. When Karen gets a position for looking after Emma Williams (Grace Zabriskie), Karen is exposed to the supernatural curse from Kayako (Takako Fuji) and Toshio (Yuya Ozeki) after going through Kayoko's Diary which expresses her love to Peter Kirk (Bill Pullman). After witnessing Kayako's ghost, Alex (Ted Raimi) enters the house to find Emma dead in her sleep and Karen petrified. When she wakes up in the hospital, Karen tells Doug that something else was in the house. After telling Doug about what happened, the chief of police Detective Nakagawa (Ryo Ishibashi) arrives and questions Karen about the boy Toshio and her experience at the house.
The next day Karen discharges herself from the hospital and tells Doug more information about her experience in the house. She makes a personal vow to learn more about what happened in the house by gathering various information. After looking up information about Toshio on the Internet, she comes across newspaper articles about the Saeki family being murdered by the father Takeo (Takashi Matsuyama) who committed suicide after. After reading the article, Karen finds another article regarding Peter Kirk's suicide. Karen decides to interview Peter's wife Maria (Rosa Blasi) and goes through his personal belongings to find all his photographs contain Kayako in the background. After learning the revelation, Karen heads over the Detective Nakagawa to explain the situation and is told "When someone dies in deep sorrow or a powerful rage, the emotion is left over and a curse is born" and explains everyone investigating the murders were found dead later.
Karen upset by Detective Nakagawa's comments arrives home to find a recording from Doug explaining he went looking for her at the house. Karen runs back to the house to prevent Doug from entering the house. As Karen enters the house, she is exposed to Kayako's curse but reveals the cause of the Saeki family massacre through flashbacks. After Karen learns about the murders, she finds Doug lifeless as Kayoko drains his soul. Karen frightened by the situation pushes over a fuel canister left by Detective Nakagawa and sets alight the house as Kayako approaches her.
Days later, Karen still shaken is walked to the morgue to identify Doug's body. As she looks at Doug's body, Kayoko summons behind her and looks into her eyes.
After being sent to the psych ward at the hospital, Karen tried to get away in order to find a way to stop The Grudge, but instead fell to her death from the roof of the hospital building, being pushed by Kayako, and witnessed by her sister Audrey and Hong Kong photojournalist Eason, who rescued her from the house's fire.
[edit] Kayako Saeki
Kayako Saeki (portrayed by Takako Fuji) was an ordinary housewife married to Takeo Saeki and mother of a little boy called Toshio. When she was a child, her mother performed unorthodox exorcisms, and passed her clients' curses to her instead of herself. Before her death Kayako studied at the university with a young man Peter Kirk. She eventually fell in love with him, and started to write about her love in her journal. Kayako and Toshio were later killed after Takeo killed both of them in a rage. It is later stated by Detective Nagakawa "If a person dies in an extreme rage or sorrow, the emotion is left over and a curse is born".
[edit] Toshio Saeki
Toshio(portrayed by Yuya Ozeki) was the son of Kayako and Takeo. After he saw Takeo kill Kayako, Takeo drowns him in the bathtub and kills his pet cat.
[edit] Takeo Saeki
Takeo Saeki (portrayed by Takashi Matsuyama) was the husband of Kayako. Takeo evidentally found Kayako's personal diary entries and murdered her and Toshio in a fit of rage.
[edit] Doug
Doug (portrayed by Jason Behr) is Karen's boyfriend whom is studying at University of Tokyo. Karen followed Doug to Japan as a foreign exchange student. After Karen's is exposed to Kayako's curse, Doug supports her by agreeing to listen to her experience. One day after awaking from his sleep, he becomes widely suspicious of Karen's obsession with the house after noticing articles spread across Karen's desk about Saeki family massacre. He then calls Karen and tells her that he's heading to the house to find her. After entering the house, he attempts to call Karen for the last time before Kayako kills him. Karen who attempted to stop him found his corpse.
[edit] Matthew Williams
Matthew Williams (portrayed by William Mapother) is an American businessman who gets a job in Tokyo, Japan. After consulting his wife Jennifer, Matthew and his family move to Tokyo and begin looking for a house. When Matthew finds a perfect house (The Saeki House) for his mother Emma and himself, they move in. A few days after moving in, Matthew comforts his wife after she states "that she feels like she doesn't fit in". One day as Matthew returns from work, he finds his wife stuggling to breath with Toshio beside her. Matthew backs against the closet and notices Toshio behind him who snatches him in.
[edit] Notes
During the test screening of The Grudge, it was revealed that after Toshio attacks him, Takeo possess him and kicks out Susan after she attempts to visit.[1]
[edit] Jennifer Williams
Jennifer Williams (portrayed by Clea DuVall) is the wife of Matthew Williams. After moving to Japan, Jennifer begins feeling like she doesn't fit in after getting lost and not being able to speak Japanese. One day after waking up from a loud thudding sound, she notices wet footprints on the floor and follows them upstairs where she finds Toshio. She later dies as Matthew comes home he finds Jennifer struggling to breath and then dies.
[edit] Emma Williams
Emma Williams (portrayed by Grace Zabriskie) is the mother of Matthew and Susan Williams. After arriving in Tokyo, Emma is assisted by her son Matthew to find her a home. When inspecting the Saeki house with Matthew, Jennifer and Susan, Emma begins feeling uneased as she wanders off into a separate room. A few days after moving in, Emma begins receiving assistance from Yoko, the housemaid. When Yoko disappears, Karen is sent in to replace her and help Emma. When Karen finds Kayoko's mysterious diary, she hears banging on a closet door. Emma later dies as Karen witnesses Kayako's summoning.
[edit] Susan Williams
Susan Williams (portrayed by KaDee Strickland) is the sister of Matthew Williams (William Mapother) and is a businesswoman working in Tokyo. Susan helps out her mother Emma (Grace Zabriskie) by settling in and finding a home. After calling up to check up on her, Susan leaves work and experiences several supernatural events in a hallway. Susan then informs a guard to check out the tenth floor. When watching the video surveillance tape she notices a disfigured character form and quickly heads home. After receiving a phone call from Matthew about his arrival, she buzzes him in and notices he doesn't arrive, with the phone still in Susan's hand, she begins hearing Kayako's croak and the ghost grabs the rabbit foot keychain on her phone. Susan breaks of the foot and runs home. As she hides in her bed, she finds a rabbits foot and notices Kayako who then drags her into the underworld.
[edit] Peter Kirk
Peter Kirk (portrayed by Bill Pullman) was a lecturer at one of Tokyo's university. He was Kayako's secret love and was partially the cause for the Saeki family massacre. Kayako secretly followed him on his dates with his wife Maria and appeared in the background of all of his photographs and sent him love letters. On the day of the massacre, Peter visited the Saeki house after receiving another letter to find out the family was already murdered because of Kayako's diary entries that expressed her love to Peter. On the next day, Peter committed suicide by falling from his balcony window.
[edit] Notes
- Bill Pullman played the role of Toshio's stepfather in the 2006 parody film Scary Movie 4.
[edit] Yoko
Yoko (portrayed by Yoko Maki) is a young housemaid who works for the same social firm as Karen. She was the William's Family original housemaid. On a routine vistit, she heard some noises that emmulated from the attic. In curiosity she follows the noise, finishes up in the room with the cupboard. She continues searching into the attic with a torch. As Yoko then shines the light around the attic floor, she comes across Kayako's ghost which then lashes out and pulls her up. She is later found infested by Kayako, her lower jaw ripped off and kills Alex (Ted Raimi) at the Social Working Firm.
[edit] Maria Kirk
Maria Kirk (portrayed by Rosa Blasi) is the wife of Peter Kirk. After waking up one morning, she witnesses her husband's suicide. Maria was later questioned by Karen regarding her husband before his death. She was also unaware of Kayako's love/obsession for Peter.
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[edit] Aubrey Davis
Aubrey Davis (portrayed by Amber Tamblyn) is Karen's younger sister. Aubrey and Karen haven't spoken to each other in years after a fight, and Aubrey wasn't close to their mother due to her always favoring Karen, and suffered verbal abuses from her. After Aubrey receives a news from her mother, (Joanna Cassidy) telling her of Karen's accident, Aubrey travels to Japan where she tends to uncover the origins of the curse. With Hong Kong photojournalist Eason, she found Kayoko's mother, who performed unorthodox exorcisms and transferred every curse she encountered to Kayoko. Kayoko finally killed her mother after years of being mistreated. Aubrey went back to the house, demanding answers, but was killed, in the same fashion as Kayako. Two years later, an American exchange student, Allison, was trapped in the closet, and Aubrey's wraith was trying to reach her the same way as Kayoko was to her victims, and passed the Saiki's curse to Allison and two of her human tormentors and classmates.
[edit] Allison Fleming
Allison (portrayed by Arielle Kebbel) is a new school girl from America who attends The International High School in Tokyo. During her first days at the school, Allison becomes unpopular and later begins hanging with the popular girls Vanessa and Miyuki. After Vanessa and Miyuki invite Allison to the Saeki House, Allison is befriended and humiliated by Vanessa and Miyuki as they attempt to scare her, and saw Aubrey's wraith in the closet. She disappeared after Kayako's wraith snatched her from her jacket's hood after unwittingly passed the curse to her neighbors and family when she got back to Chicago.[2].
[edit] Vanessa
Vanessa (portrayed by Teresa Palmer) is an American schoolgirl who attends The International High School in Tokyo. Vanessa enters the Saeki house with Miyuki and Allison in an attempt to scare her. Vanessa is one of the popular girls in school who befriends Allison by attempting to scare her while in the house. She died inside a phone booth after staring at the face of Kayako. She later came back as a ghost to kill Allison and saw Jake in his apartment.[3].
[edit] Miyuki Nazawa
Miyuki (portrayed by Misako Uno) is a Japanese schoolgirl from The International High School who enters the Saeki house with Vanessa and Allison in an attempt to scare her. When she gets in the house she hears splashing noises in the bathtub. Kayako snatched her from a mirror in a motel room then she came back as a ghost to kill Allison and saw Jake in his apartment in Chicago.
[edit] Eason
Eason (portrayed by Edison Chen) is a Hong Kong journalist who is reaching the paranormal events created from Kayako's curse. He was the one who rescued Karen from the house's fire. He later died in the dark room, inspecting developed photos when Kayako came out of a tray of water and attacked him.
[edit] Jake
Jake (portrayed by Matthew Knight) moved into an apartment in Chicago with Bill and Trish. One night when he got back from school with Lacey he witnessed multiple deaths of his family. He assumingly dies at the end of the movie when Kayako came out of Allison's Jacket.
[edit] References
- ^ IMDB (October 1, 2006). Possession Of Matthew. IMDB. Retrieved on 2006-10-01.
- ^ Movie Web (October 3, 2006). Allison is befriended. Movie Web. Retrieved on 2006-10-03.
- ^ Rotten Tomatoes (October 3, 2006). Vannessa And Miyuki befriend Allison. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved on 2006-10-03.
| The Ju-on Curse | |
|---|---|
| Directed by Takashi Shimizu | |
| Short Films: Katasumi and 4444444444 | Tales of The Grudge | |
| Juon Series: Ju-on | Ju-on 2 | The Grudge | The Grudge 2 | The Grudge 3 | |
| American Films: The Grudge | The Grudge 2 | The Grudge 3 | |
| Characters | |
| Aubrey | Karen | Kayako | Takeo | Toshio | |
| Locations | |
| Chicago, Illinois | Pasadena | Tokyo, Japan | |
