Takashi Shimizu

For the baseball catcher, see Takashi Shimizu (baseball).

Takashi Shimizu
清水 崇
Born (1972-07-27) 27 July 1972 (age 52)
Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
Alma materNihon University
Occupations
  • Director
  • producer
  • screenwriter
Years active2000-present

Takashi Shimizu (清水 崇 Shimizu Takashi, born 27 July 1972) is a Japanese filmmaker. He is best known for being the creator of the Ju-On franchise, and directing four of its films, internationally, in both Japan and the U.S. According to film scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon, Shimizu is "one of a new breed of Japanese horror directors" who prefers to "suggest menace and violence rather than directly depict it".[1]

  1. ^ Wheeler Winston Dixon, Rutgers University Press, 11 July 2007, Film Talk: Directors at Work, Retrieved 10 November 2014 (see page xi Introduction last paragraph), ISBN 978-0-8135-4077-1