History Film / Juon

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters

* BigSisterInstinct: Mai will stop at nothing in search for her missing sister, Yui. Even when Kyosuke already tells her to ''get off the Nerima house case as far as she can''.

* {{Jerkass}}: The teacher from Mizuho's vignette.

** Manami Kobayashi is hinted to have suffered from this, since Takeo [[spoiler: removed her unborn child].

* BodyHorror: Kanna in the first movie ([[spoiler:she loses her lower jaw]]), and Kyoko in the fourth... [[spoiler:when Kayako emerges from her womb]]. Also occurs briefly towards the end of the third movie when Rika has a vision of Kayako tearing her way out of her chest.

* InfantImmortality: Averted with Toshio, and with [[spoiler:Manami and Kobayashi's unborn child]]. That's right, not even [[spoiler:a ''fetus'']] survives this series.

* SuddenlyVoiced: Downplayed. Kayako does talk once in ''The Curse'' to Toshio, but it's offscreen and not the focus of the scene, and she also narrates the diary that Kobayashi found in her room. In the last two reboot films, however, she is shown to hold full conversations with other, living characters, and the two films in general made her more human (but still murderous of course).

* WomanInWhite: Kayako wears a simple white dress.

* {{Typecasting}}: In-universe examples: Kyoko, an actress primarily known for horror films, complains about being typecast as "the Queen of Horror" near the beginning of the fourth movie. Megumi also complains that she is always being cast as a ghost in TV productions, [[NeverLiveItDown after playing one in one of Keisuke's TV shows]].

* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Kyoko Harase]].

** Justified in the reboots. [[spoiler: Toshio's really not his son, after all]].

* TookALevelInBadass: Toshio in the reboots, big time. He ''single-handedly done all the killings'' in ''The Beginning of the End'', and also racks up a good one in ''The Final'', when he's primarily an annoyance in the original continuity. He also gains many more powers, including [[spoiler: BodySurf. As expected of the true BigBad.]]

** [[spoiler: Yui's]] fate was left ambiguous in ''The Beginning of the End'', since all we see of [[spoiler: her is waking up from her supposed dream to meet her still-decapitated boyfriend.]] Come ''The Final'', and [[spoiler: we see that she has indeed fallen to the curse, since Kayako is able to use her image to lure Mai so she can kill her.]]

* DieLaughing: [[spoiler: Kayako in ' 'The Beginning of The End' '. Laughing while having her neck snapped, yeah.]]

* DieLaughing: [[spoiler: Kayako in the "Beginning of The End". Laughing while having her neck snapped, yeah.]]

* DieLaughing: [[spoiler: Kayako in the seventh film. Laughing while having her neck snapped, yeah.]]

* EvilLaugh: Kayako, combined with [[spoiler: DieLaughing]] in the seventh film, [[spoiler: after Takeo found out that she has been lying to him about Toshio's parentage.]] Yes, ''Kayako''.

* FeministFantasy: Swap fantasy with horror and replace ActionGirl with TheEveryman. More than 80% of the characters are female, either as heroes, victims, and background characters, and the main villain is also a female. Male characters do take part a few times as protagonists (and one is a GreaterScopeVillain of the series), but even if they are, all films are headlined by the females (Kyoko in both ''The Curse'' and ''The Curse 2'', Rika in ''The Grudge'', Kyoko (no relation to the first) in ''The Grudge 2'', Akane in ''White Ghost'', Kiwako and Mariko in ''Black Ghost'', Yui in ''The Beginning of the End'', and Mai in ''The Final''). All films of the series also passed UsefulNotes/TheBechdelTest. This seems to be a trend with J-Horrors in general.

* GainaxEnding: ''Ju-on: The Beginning of The End'', oh so much. [[spoiler: So after most of the main characters are killed, we're left to the main heroine, Yui, who's trapped by Kayako and Toshio in the house, only to [[AllJustADream suddenly wake up at her apartment, as if everything is just in her head.]] [[OrWasItADream But then, she goes out and sees her boyfriend,]] [[NeckSnap his head still going the other way.]]]] Blam! That's how the movie ends.

* GratuitousRape: Towards the end of the novel adaptation, Takeo inexplicably rapes Rika.

* CreatorCameo: Well, sort of. Kayako's death rattles are provided by Takashi Shimizu.

* DemotedToExtra: Of all people, Kayako gets much less screen time in ''The Beginning of the End'', mainly because [[spoiler: Toshio takes over her usual role as the BigBad.]] She only appears once in her ghost form at the end, [[spoiler: helping Toshio corner Yui,]] and ''doesn't kill anyone'' in the film.
** She's finally promoted to be more villainlike in ''The Final''. Sure, she's still not the BigBad, but at least she gets to rack up several kills, [[spoiler: including the last one.]]

* BittersweetEnding: ''White Ghost'' has one, probably the ''only'' time where at least one of our main protagonists come out of the hauntings relatively unscathed. Our leading lady (girl?), Akane, is haunted by her guilt of letting her childhood friend, Mirai, be abused and [[OffWithHisHead murdered horrifically]] by her uncle. At the end, [[spoiler: Akane apologizes to Mirai, and the latter in turn leaves her bear keychain before disappearing for good, having forgiven her. She doesn't want to kill her friend after all.]] Warm feelings...

* BreakTheCutie: Most of the characters, but particularly Rika, Izumi and Chiharu.

* DownerEnding: [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Every. Single. Installment.]] Except for ''White Ghost'', which is more [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet]] (see above), and ''The Beginning of the End'', which is... [[GainaxEnding puzzling]] (see below).

* BittersweetEnding: ''White Ghost'' has one, probably the ''only'' time where at least one of our main protagonists come out of the hauntings relatively unscathed. Our leading lady (girl?), Akane, is haunted by her guilt of letting her childhood friend, Mirai, be abused and [[OffWithHisHead murdered horrifically]] by her uncle. At the end, [[spoiler: Akane apologizes to Mirai, and the latter in turn leaves her bear keychain before disappearing for good, having forgiven her. She doesn't want to kill her friend after all.]] [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Warm feelings...]]

* PsychologicalHorror

'''Note: This page is for the Japanese franchise only. For the American series, see ''Film/TheGrudge''.'''

* DeathRattle: The only noise Kayako makes, a remnant of her death by broken neck.

* BittersweetEnding: ''White Ghost'' has one, probably the ''only'' time where at least one of our main protagonists come out of the hauntings relatively unscathed. Our leading lady (girl?), Akane, is haunted by her guilt of letting her childhood friend, Mirai, be abused and [[OffWithHisHead murdered horrifically]] by her uncle. At the end, [[spoiler: Akane apologizes to Mirai, and the latter in turn leaves her bear keychain before disappearing for good, having forgiven her. She doesn't want to kill her friend after all.]] [[HeartwarmingMoments Warm feelings...]]