Katasumi (also known as In the Corner) and 4444444444 (pronounced en:Ten Fours) are two 1998 Japanese horror short films directed by Takashi Shimizu related to the Ju-on series.
Takashi Shimizu first became involved with the Ju-on saga when writer and director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who was teaching a filmmaking class that Shimizu, then working as an assistant director, attended, was impressed by a three-minute short film Shimizu had written and direc...
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Katasumi (also known as In the Corner) and 4444444444 (pronounced en:Ten Fours) are two 1998 Japanese horror short films directed by Takashi Shimizu related to the Ju-on series.
Takashi Shimizu first became involved with the Ju-on saga when writer and director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who was teaching a filmmaking class that Shimizu, then working as an assistant director, attended, was impressed by a three-minute short film Shimizu had written and directed.
When Kurosawa learned that a producer he knew had just commissioned a feature length horror film for Kansai Telecasting Corporation, he recommended Shimizu for the job of directing one or more sections of the film. To complete this task, Shimizu wrote several scripts, each roughly thirty minutes in length, only to be asked to make two brief three minute segments (Katasumi and 4444444444), as the television movie was intended to be an anthology of short films. After being edited together, the collection of four shorts (one of which was...
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