Well, no surprise here, as several people had predicted it. Still, it's the Grandfather of Japanese ghost movies. Easy to see where the ghost girl from Ringu originated, she's basically the daughter of this lady. This is on my Halloween watch list, courtesy of the fine folks from Criterion. Maybe a day watching this…
Monsters very seldom enter the cultural lexicon anymore; this might be the primary example of successfully doing so this century. And the American remake is a rare example of turning out a very good, discrete version of an Asian film. Aside from the fact that monsters just don't grab mass audiences the way they…