Miniseries · Netflix
Ju-On: Origins
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Yoshiyoshi Arakawa
Yasuo Odajima
6 eps
Yuina Kuroshima
Haruka Honjo
6 eps
Kohki Osamura
Yudai Katsuragi
6 eps
Seiko Iwaido
Woman in White
6 eps
Kai Inowaki
Tetsuya Fukazawa
6 eps
Ryushin Tei
Tamotsu Kosaka
6 eps
Yuya Matsuura
Kokichi Odajima
6 eps
Kaho Tsuchimura
Manami Kuze
6 eps
Takemi Fujii
Yuka Tsujii
6 eps
Ryôta Matsushima
Keiichi Masaki
6 eps
Haruka Kubo
Chie Masaki
6 eps
Shinsuke Kato
Nobuhiko Haida
6 eps
Nana Yanagisawa
Keiko Haida
6 eps
Atom Shukugawa
Yusaku Morozumi
6 eps
Yura Anno
Tomoko Morozumi
6 eps
Tokio Emoto
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6 eps
Kana Kurashina
Kimie Ariyasu
6 eps
Nobuko Sendo
Michiko Fukazawa
6 eps
Ririka
Kiyomi Kawai
6 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Ju-On: Origins actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Ju-On: Origins reads strongest on Bingeability, Serialized and Character Depth.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
A paranormal researcher searches obsessively for a cursed home where something terrible happened to a mother and her child long ago.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Kaata SakamotoExecutive Producer
- Mikihiko HirataProducer
- Takashige IchiseProducer
- Toshinori YamaguchiExecutive Producer
Direction
- Sho MiyakeDirector
Cinematography
- Hidetoshi ShinomiyaDirector of Photography
Where to watch
Streaming
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