Takashi Shimizu
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."