* Ju-on, aka Ju-on: The Curse (V-Cinema); (Available only in Japan, Germany and Scandinavia, has been on US TV)
Ju-on 1 follows the lives of the people connected to the house in Nerima where a gruesome murder of a housewife occurred. School teacher Shunsuke Kobayashi visits the home of his absent student, Saeki Toshio, where he discovers Toshio not in a very good state. He waits for Toshio's parents to come. It was now already too late when he realized what the Saeki family has become and not even Kobayashi's wife makes it out alive. The movie also explores the fates of the next family to live in the house, the Murakami family. This timeline of the film also extends the stories of Tsuyoshi and Kanna from Gakkō no kaidan G. The last timeline shows a snippet of Suzuki Kyoko's experience, a psychic invited by her brother to look into the house that he was going to sell, which was the cursed Saeki house. This movie showed death as the cursed's manifestation.
* Ju-on 2, aka Ju-on: The Curse 2 (V-Cinema); (Available only in Japan and Germany has been on US TV)
Ju-on 2 continues the story of Suzuki Kyoko and shows how the curse affected everyone in her family. It also shows the story of another couple, the Kitadas, living in the house and the extended storyline of Det. Kamio from Ju-on 1. Ju-on 2 also shows a snippet of a scene that will play on to the theatrical versions of the films, being the fate of the school girls who had sneaked into the house, one of which is Toyama Izumi, whose story would be continued in Ju-on: The Grudge. This movie featured another facet of the curse and that is it can drive a person mad before finally killing them.
[edit] 2003
* Ju-on: The Grudge, aka The Grudge; (Japan, released in the UK and USA)
Ju-on The Grudge centers on the fate of social worker Nishina Rika. Rika comes to visit the house of Tokunagas (the old Saeki house) where she was summoned after the social worker assigned to the house has disappeared. Surviving a terrible experience in that house, she discovers the real reason about the deaths connected to the house. It was later revealed that Rika was the one destined to play out the curse: she was to die the same way as Kayako and become the next fulfiller of the Ju-on. In this movie, it was revealed that the curse has some time-traveling capabilities (or residual haunting) where a victim may see another victim from another time frame. An example is that Det. Toyama Yuji saw what will happen to his daughter, Izumi, years after his death when she entered the house. Izumi was just 12 when Yuji died and when she entered the house at 16, she found her father enacting his last deeds moments before his death.
* Ju-on: The Grudge 2, aka The Grudge 2; (Japan, released in the UK and USA)
Ju-on: The Grudge 2 revolves around the actress Harase Kyoko's pregnancy. After a car accident caused by Toshio's ghost, Kyoko presumably miscarried. When her doctor assured her of a healthy pregnancy, Kyoko becomes perplexed. It is revealed that Kyoko was involved with a television production filmed at a haunted house - the house of the Saekis in Nerima. Producer Keisuke finds Kyoko and informs her that the members of the film crew have been killed or gone missing. The outcome of Kyoko's pregnancy was horrifyingly revealed as she was the one to give birth to Kayako. As another incarnation of the curse, this showed that the curse itself could cause a pregnant woman to carry Kayako in her womb.
