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== The Saeki Family ==
=== Kayako Saeki ===
The [[Big Bad]] of the series, Kayako was an ordinary [[Housewife]] who has an obsessive [[Stalker with a Crush|crush]] on a teacher Peter Kirk. Unfortunately, her husband Takeo found out and [[Love Hurts|brutally killed her]], along with her son Toshio and the family cat Mar. Brought back by her family's rage as a [[Curse]], Kayako appears as a [[Stringy -Haired Ghost Girl]], [[Uncanny Valley|crawling about to hunt down]] and kill anyone who enters her house to consume them in the curse. She is most iconic for crawling her way down the stairs, and lets out a [[Hell Is That Noise|chilling death rattle]] whenever she appears.
 
* {{spoiler|[[Apocalypse Maiden]]: If the curse can spread THAT easily the whole world is screwed.}}
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* [[Peek-a-Boo Corpse]]: Her corpse flies out of the attic in front of Peter.
* [[Prehensile Hair]]: Kayako uses her hair to hang Takeo, and kill Vanessa in the second film.
* {{spoiler|[[Sealed Inside a Person -Shaped Can]]: Kayako is trapped inside Rose's body in ''The Grudge 3''}}.
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Karen found several photos of Kayako stalking Peter and his wife in the background of each photo. She wrote a very personal diary of her feelings for Peter, which Takeo found, leading to the family's deaths.
* [[Stringy -Haired Ghost Girl]]
* [[Twisted Ankle]]
* [[Woman in White]]
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Kayako's young son who was drowned by his father Takeo after witnessing him murder his mother. Appearing as a ghostly pale little boy, Toshio is the only ghost shown to talk but most of the time [[Cat Scare|meows]] at his victims.
 
* [[Black Eyes of Evil]]: Sometimes portrayed as having these, noticeably in box-art.
* [[Cat Scare]]: He often scares characters (and viewers) by meowing at them, sometimes on the phone.
* [[Creepy Child]]: Holy hell!
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* [[Killer Rabbit]]
* [[Kindhearted Cat Lover]]
* [[The Other Darrin]]: He has been portrayed by three different actors. In the first film and in flashbacks/photographs for the second and third films, he was portrayed by Yuya Ozeki (who also portrayed the version of the character in the two theatrical ''[[JuonJu-On]]'' films). In the second film, he was portrayed by Ohga Tanaka. In the third film, he is portrayed by Shimba Tsuchiya. (Unfortunately, the difference is rather jarring in the third movie, as Toshio looks a lot older than in the previous films.)
* [[Peek-a-Boo Corpse]]: Averted. His corpse was hidden in a closet, Karen finding the ghost of Toshio in there during her first visit to the house.
 
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* [[Dead Little Sister]]
* [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette]]
* {{spoiler|[[Stringy -Haired Ghost Girl]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Twisted Ankle]]: Subverted. Instead of breaking her ankle like her sister before her, Takeo-possessed Max breaks her knee instead.}}
* [[You Killed My Father|You Killed My Sister]]: Naoko recognises Takeo when he possesses Max.
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* [[Beard of Sorrow]]: A taped interview with him in the second film, which took place some time shortly after the deaths of his colleagues, shows him looking extremely unkempt.
* [[Composite Character]]: He shares the name and profession of Detective Nakagawa from the original ''[[JuonJu-On]]'' film series, but his personality and actions are closer to that of retired detective Toyama, also from ''[[JuonJu-On]]''. Like Toyama, he lost his colleagues to the curse, and also tries to burn the house down.
* [[Fair Cop]]
* [[Hardboiled Detective]]
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* {{spoiler|[[Kill the Cutie]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Neck Snap]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Stringy -Haired Ghost Girl]]}}
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy|Well Done, Daughter Girl]]: Has a bit of this going on with her mother.
 
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