Trivia / Ju-On: Origins

• Patched Together from the Headlines: The series borrows heavily from both Japanese True Crime and Urban Legend, most notably:
  • The house itself. It’s based on the “Yellow House/Triangle House” of Nagoya. The house no longer stands today and was paved into a parking lot, but it was once known as one of the most famous haunted houses in Japan.
  • Chie’s murder is based off of the little-known-outside-of-Japan Pregnant Ripper Murder, also in Nagoya.
  • Child-killer M is based off of Tusutomu Miyazaki, a Japanese serial killer that murdered four young girls in the 1980s.
• Truth in Television: There are multiple news broadcasts throughout the show that allude to different noteworthy crimes and other major news stories in Japan between the late 80s to late 90s, including:
  • The murder of Junko Furuta.
  • Both the Matsumoto sarin attack and the Tokyo subway sarin attack committed by the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo.
  • The Kobe child murders
  • The Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995