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graline wrote:i think that should be good..i always enjoy some good sam raimi, and his nepotismic brother=^_^=
Mulboyne wrote:Unlike "Ring", this remake is still set in Japan
Trailer for The Grudge
graline wrote:i think that should be good..
Mulboyne wrote:SShe could only find Japanese-style toilets which she didn't much fancy so she used the handicapped bathroom instead. Looking for the light switch, she pressed a button but, as she discovered soon afterwards when two security guards broke in on her, it was for "emergency help". That was sorted out but she then couldn't find the flush..
Directed by Takashi Shimizu, who also directed the original Japanese version, "The Juon" is the latest Hollywood remake of a Japanese horror film, which producer Sam Raimi praises highly. So much so that he insisted Shimizu be given the job and not an American director. However, this caused some problems, and not of the language type...Takahashi (he's 32) recalls. "I had a good conversation with Sam Raimi and we were both on the same level. He wanted me to keep the ambiguity of the Japanese horror movie in the film, but after we started editing, the studio bosses said the opposite. They wanted the typical American pattern where everything is cut and dried, so we had a bit of conflict."
Fortunately, audiences in Japan will get to see the director's cut, while U.S. audiences will have to wait until it is released on DVD in June. "I generally find Japanese horror scarier than American ones. Maybe it is because we find those things that are different or unfamiliar to be scary," says Gellar. She had a ball in Japan, visiting Kyoto, Hakone, Ueno and the sumo. "I probably got to see more of suburban Japan than most foreigners who live here," she says. "We had a purification ceremony before we started and that was an intense experience."
Buffy wrote: "I probably got to see more of suburban Japan than most foreigners who live here," she says. "We had a purification ceremony before we started and that was an intense experience."
Amber Tamblyn and Arielle Kebbel, who co-star in the upcoming horror sequel film The Grudge 2, told reporters that shooting the film on location in Tokyo under Japanese director Takashi Shimizu and his local crew presented unique challenges. "What wasn't a challenge?" Tamblyn said in a news conference..."I was really fabulously surprised to find out that you're supposed to take your shoes off when you go inside the houses for respect, so you don't track dirt in, [but] that they would smoke inside the houses and on the sets. It's the irony of the Japanese culture, which I appreciate very much. I really had a great time just sort of experiencing a completely different lifestyle, a completely different way of doing things."
...Kebbel said that her own culture shock started with the language. "The language barrier ... has a bearing on the time, because everything takes twice as long," she said. "But I think also, depending on your mindset when you go up there, that can also be one of the greatest gifts about working over there, because ... nothing is like it is here. For me it was interesting going over there, ... even though you know we do what we do here, which is make movies, and you show up on set every day whether it's on location or in a studio, and you're kind of used to a routine. You get out, you change, you go to hair and makeup, you get your food, you rehearse, whatever, and over there, their tradition is completely different. So I think for me in the beginning that was kind of a difficult change, because I wanted to embrace as much as possible, but it required change on my part to learn and accept those things."
"......"I probably got to see more of suburban Japan than most foreigners who live here,"....."
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