New Grudge Film Ju-on: Owari no Hajimari Focuses on The Beginning of the End

Apparently the franchise scared up by Takashi Shimizu still has some gasp left in the old ghost tank in Japan as Ju-on: Owari no Hajimari (translated: Ju-On: The Beginning of the End) is getting ready to start production!

Eigapedia got the early word. Ochiai Masayuki, (Infection, Hypnosis and the 2008 remake of Shutter) is directing. Thus far Nozomi Sasaki has been cast along with Kai Kobayashi as the dreaded Toshio Saeki.

Filming begins tomorrow with a release date already slated for June 28. That’s pretty fast.

Synopsis
An elementary school teacher named Yui (Sasaki) visits the home of a boy named Toshio Saeki (Kobayashi), who’s been absent from school for a long period of time. When she arrives, she re-lives the horrific tragedy which occurred in the Saeki household 10 years earlier. A cardboard box left in a closet holds the key to revealing a long-hidden truth.