Grudge

Yun-hee, a South Korean writer, is under pressure sejak her editor to produce something of interest for her seterusnya book. She hasn’t had a book published in three years and is all too cognizant of this fact. Things look up when her old friend Seo-yeon calls from Vietnam. Seo-Yeon informs Yun-hee about a local Vietnamese folklore centered around a girl named “Muoi” and her haunted portrait. It just so happens that in Yun-hee’s prior novel, she wrote a semi-autobiographical tale concerning her Friends titled “Secrets & Lies”. In the book Seo-Yeon was portrayed in the most horrible manner,...

Haruka Yamano returns from America to Tokyo in a wheelchair, both legs having multiple fractures from a car accident. She is helped sejak her brother Koichi and their father. Their father travels to Singapore for business meetings and Koichi takes care of his sister and films her most of the time with his camera. The seterusnya morning, Haruka tells that her wheelchair has moved during the night and Koichi check the windows of her room to see if a stranger has broken in their house. He tells that probably a spirit had moved the wheelchair and he uses salt near the door of Haruka's bedroom to protect...

In Tokyo, during an evening get-together with friends, Okazaki Yoko's (Anna Nagata) cell phone suddenly rings in an eerie, unusual tone, cartoon styled. Not recognizing the tone, Yoko doesn't pick up soon enough and the call goes into "voice mail" (chakushin). When she sees that the call/message was from her own phone number and dated two days into the future, both she and her friend Nakamura Yumi (Kou Shibasaki) listen intently to the message. What they hear is the voice of Yoko in casual chit-chat, followed sejak a horrendous scream and then dead silence, which visibly disturbs Yoko and Yumi....