The Grudge
In the Japanese, Kayako is almost covered head to toe in blood, most notably in "," and she also has curly, broad hair in "Ju-on: The Grudge." But in "Ju-on: The Grudge 2," she has long straight hair as well as in "The Grudge". However, in the more recent vignettes of the American films, she is either pale blue-toned white or completely pure white (except for the infamous stair crawling scene at the end of "The Grudge," in which she is covered in blood). After the house is burned by Karen Davis in "The Grudge", Kayako seems to be permanently clean; this is perhaps to signify her change of character, because in "Ju-on," she is somewhat weaker than she is in the remake. As in "Ju-on," she constantly crawls downstairs and rarely attacks people as viciously as she does in "The Grudge". In the American storyline, she seems to be a much stronger, more evil, and a more powerful Onryō because, as seen in "The Grudge 3," she can kill someone by ripping their eyes out and tearing off their jaw. In fact, in the last two US films, she is never seen covered in blood at all (although in "The Grudge 3," Jake mentions to Dr. Sullivan that he saw her covered in blood on one occasion).