Synopsis
Ju-On: Origins (2020), Season 1 is a Japanese horror you can watch online on iFILM — six episodes that drag the Ju-On franchise back to where the curse began.
A paranormal researcher named Yasuo can't let go of one address. A young actress hears footsteps in an empty flat and records them for him, and that thread leads straight to a house where a mother and her child once met something terrible. The season braids several lives across decades — Kiyomi, whose life the curse keeps wrecking, the woman in white from her visions, a child-killer known only as "M." Cross the threshold and you carry a piece of the dark home.
This is Netflix rebooting Takashi Shimizu's franchise as a faux-documentary chronicle rather than another jump-scare remake. The horror is quiet, domestic, and all the stickier for it. Best for viewers who prefer slow Japanese dread to loud American shocks. Stream Ju-On: Origins Season 1 online on iFILM.
6 episodes
S1·E1Episode 1
A young actress is troubled by mysterious footsteps in her apartment. Intrigued, paranormal researcher Yasuo asks her to record the sounds.
S1·E2Episode 2
Things change for Kiyomi and her attackers after the incident at the abandoned house. Tetsuya's psychic mother reaches out to Haruka.
S1·E3Episode 3
Kiyomi is now a mother, but her hard life takes a turn for the worse. Through it all, she continues to have visions of the woman in white.
S1·E4Episode 4
His obsessive search for the cursed house leads Yasuo to "M," an incarcerated child killer. A pregnant woman incurs her husband's wrath.
S1·E5Episode 5
Yasuo realizes that he has a deep connection to the cursed house. After seeing her in a vision, he goes out in search of Kiyomi.
S1·E6Episode 6
A young couple expecting a child moves into the house. To get answers, Yasuo, Haruka and Michiko all pay a visit to the cursed home.
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