Takako Fuji

Takako Fuji is a Japanese stage and film actress and seiyu.

Although she mostly works on stage or providing voiceovers, she also has a handful of film roles. She is undoubtedly best known to audiences for portraying Kayako Saeki in all installments of the Takashi Shimizu-directed ~Ju-on~ film series, and in the first two installments of the American remake series The Grudge.

She also appeared as the ghost of a hotel maid in another of Shimizu's films, Reincarnation, and later appeared as Rika in the Norman England-directed sci-fi comedy film ~The iDol~. She also provided a voiceover in Princess Mononoke.

Tropes related to Takako Fuji:

 * Actor Allusion: Her role in Reincarnation - a malevolent spirit who comes complete with jerky, unnatural movements. Who does that remind you of?
 * Mean Character, Nice Actor
 * Moe
 * Yamato Nadeshiko