Ju-On: White Ghost

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Director: Ryuta Miyake Year: 2009 Runtime: 61 min IMDb: ⭐ 6.1
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Synopsis

An apparitions of a young schoolgirl in a yellow rain hat, a family massacre, and a law student's suicide after he fails his bar exam are linked by the ominous recordings discovered on an audio cassette.

White Ghost is divided into eight segments in the following order: Fumiya (文哉), Kashiwagi (柏木), Akane (あかね), Isobe (磯部), Chiho (千穂), Mirai (未来), Yasukawa (安川), and Atsushi (篤). The Isobe family, including daughter Mirai and her uncle Atsushi, have recently moved to a new house, where the murder of Mariko's family from Ju-On: Black Ghost took place. Possessed by a spirit from a mirror, which has assumed his appearance, Atsushi distances himself from the others and starts to sexually abuse Mirai. After failing his bar exam two days before Christmas, Atsushi listens to a cassette that mysteriously records his voice saying "I'll be right there" to a young girl. Atsushi then murders his family; first, he bludgeons his father Kentaro with a bat. Then, he strangles his grandmother Haru, who has an abnormal obsession with Atsushi's basketball. Afterwards, he stabs his stepmother Maho and burns his stepsister Junko alive. Finally, he decapitates Mirai and keeps her head in a bag. Atsushi carries the bag and takes a taxi ride, driven by Hajime Kashiwagi, to a forest. At the forest, Atsushi expresses remorse and records himself saying "I'll be right there" to Mirai's head, which has come alive, on a cassette. He then hangs himself. Hajime is requested by his management to answer questions to the police, who are investigating the Isobe massacre. Hajime agrees but he finds Mirai's head in his backseat and is viciously dragged away by an unseen entity from behind. On Christmas, Fumiya, a delivery boy, delivers a pre-ordered Christmas cake to the Isobe household. However, he is tormented by the Isobe ghosts. Haru's ghost is also implied to be possessed by the ghost of Kayako Saeki. Fumiya is then comforted by his girlfriend, Chiho, who celebrates Christmas in their apartment. However, Fumiya sees Chiho as Haru's ghost and kills her by stabbing her repeatedly. Meanwhile, Atsushi's cassette becomes cursed and kills anyone who listens to it but Detective Yasukawa eventually buries it near a mountain. Seven years later, Hajime's daughter and Mirai's friend, Akane, now sixteen years old, is playing Kokkuri with her friends Mayumi and Yuka. Mayumi suggests calling the spirit of Akane's father. When they play, the board spells "Mirai", and after seeing Mirai's ghost, Akane quickly leaves, leaving her friends puzzled. While Mayumi goes back to the class to grab her things, Yuka goes to the restroom and encounters Haru's ghost, who kills her off-screen. Atsushi's cassette mysteriously appears in Yasukawa's office and despite Yasukawa destroying it, it plays by itself to his colleague. After returning home one night, Akane sees Mirai's ghost and apologizes to her for not helping her when she was abused. Akane closes her eyes and accepts her fate. However, she finds a bear key-chain near her feet, which Mirai gave to her for good luck as a child.

Summary adapted from TMDb and Wikipedia sources.

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Content Warnings

⭐ IMDb Parents Guide 🛡️ Common Sense Media

someone is sexually assaulted
spoiler a character is heavily implied to be sexually abusing his young niece. he gets uncomfortably close to her at times and she becomes very distressed when she's alone with him. there's also one or two points where it looks like he's going to rape her
there's child abuse
Yes
there's domestic violence
Yes
there are hangings
Yes
there's amputation
spoiler there's decapitation if that counts
someone struggles to breathe
Yes
there's decapitation
Yes
someone is burned alive
spoiler happens about 50 minutes in
a kid dies
spoiler a young character dies
a family member dies
Yes
a parent dies
Yes
there are jump scares
Yes
there's ghosts
Yes
someone is possessed
Yes
someone vomits
spoiler happens offscreen but coughing/retching is heard
someone dies by suicide
Yes
there's misophonia
Yes
someone has an anxiety attack
Yes
someone has an abortion
spoiler a character mentions that she wanted an abortion but was not able to get one. abortions are not shown or discussed outside of that instance and it's not an important part of the story as far as i could tell
the black guy dies first
spoiler there are no black characters in the film
there are incestuous relationships
Yes
there is sexual content
spoiler no sex scenes or nudity as far as i can remember, but i'd say yes on account of the movie having heavy implications of sexual abuse (see "is someone sexually assaulted?")
the ending is sad
spoiler i don't know if i'd call it "sad", but its definitely not a happy ending
Santa (et al) is spoiled
spoiler In the second segment, a child states that there is no Santa Claus and her father seems to confirm that he's Santa
there's blood/gore
Yes

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