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Kayako spends her childhood with her younger sister (Emi Ikehata) and mother , an Itako (Japanese exorcist) who uses Kayako to "eat" the evil spirits she drives away from her patients. Kayako's sister Naoko was spared of this treatment. This marks young Kayako for the rest of her life, making her a target for gossip and cruelty. [7]
Kayako Saeki (portrayed by Takako Fuji and Aiko Horiuchi) is the primary antagonist of The Grudge series. In life, she was an ordinary housewife and mother. When she was a child, her mother performed unorthodox exorcisms and passed her clients' curses to Kayako instead of herself.
After receiving a letter from Kayako, Peter visits the Saeki house only to find her and Takeo's corpses and Toshio's ghost. Shocked and horrified, he flees the scene and commits suicide the next day. The remainder of the Saeki family rises again as restless ghosts due to the curse, notably Kayako, who appears as an onryō.
Horiuchi starred in The Grudge 3 (2009) as Kayako Saeki, the vengeful ghost of the Ju-on series (called "The Grudge"), taking over for Takako Fuji who had passed on the role. Her performance received a mixed, if not muted, response.
Drawing inspiration from The Grudge 2, The Beginning of the End features a new backstory regarding the curse, while still featuring the Saeki family as an integral part of the plot. [7] The film was followed by a 2015 sequel, Ju-On: The Final Curse , which was promoted as the final film in the series. [ 8 ]
Here, one of the game's onryō, Kayako Saeki, can be seen crawling into the player character's circle of visibility. The Wii Remote is used to direct the player character 's flashlight; however, rather than using the controller's infrared functionality, the games uses the Wii remote's accelerometer to guide the onscreen tool. [ 2 ]
Meanwhile, Aoi's sister sells the house to a couple named Takeo and Kayako Saeki. Ten years later, an elementary schoolteacher, Yui Shono, is assigned to replace Mr. Konishi as a homeroom teacher. She is concerned when she finds that a student, Toshio Saeki, has been absent for a week and decides to visit the Saeki household. She meets Toshio's ...
The onryō is a staple of the J-Horror genre, most notable being Sadako Yamamura and Kayako Saeki from the Ring and Ju-On franchises, respectively. The characters in these works are usually women who were wronged in life and returned as onryō to wreak havoc on the living and obtain revenge. [18]