Isao Yatsu

Acting

Isao Yatsu

Born 1929-11-19 · Kanagawa, Japan

Isao Yatsu was born on November 19, 1929 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. He was an actor, known for Dark Water (2002), Ju On: The Grudge (2002) and The Grudge 2 (2006). He died on April 18, 2008 from pneumonia.

Acting credits

Ju-on: The Grudge poster
6.8

When a social worker is sent to check on a traumatized elderly woman whose family have moved in at the site of a notorious murder case, she unwittingly unleashes a cycle of terror that transmits via its victims.

Ju-on: The Grudge

2002

Dark Water poster
6.8

A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.

Dark Water

2002

The Grudge 2 poster
5.6

A young woman encounters a malevolent supernatural force while searching for her missing sister in Tokyo, a mean high school prank goes horribly wrong, and strange things begin happening in a Chicago apartment building.

The Grudge 2

2006

Ring 2 poster
5.8

While investigating the horrifying death of her boyfriend, Mai Takano learns about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a disturbing girl named Sadako, which kills anyone who watches it exactly one week later. When her boyfriend’s son, Yoichi, starts to develop the same psychic abilities as Sadako, Takano must find a way to keep the boy and herself from becoming the next victims.

Ring 2

1999

Crying Out Love in the Center of the World poster
7.3

While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caused by the events from his high school days.

Crying Out Love in the Center of the World

2004

Tales of the Unusual poster
6.8

A four-part anthology in the spirit of The Twilight Zone, this film starts off with a group of commuters stranded at a train station in the rain, listening to stories told by one of the group. These include tales of a group stranded in the mountains and haunted by guilt over a death they inadvertantly caused, an emotionally broken chessmaster pressed into playing a real-life game for an eccentric millionaire, a wandering medieval samurai who finds a modern-day cell phone on the ground and a person on the other end asking questions about the past, and a young couple who agree to try a computer simulation of what their future as husband and wife would be like.

Tales of the Unusual

2000

Forbidden Siren poster
5.2

A writer moves to a remote island with his daughter and young son. After settling into their new home, a neighbor arrives to welcome them and give them a breakdown of the local rules; most important: do not go outside when the island's siren starts wailing.

Forbidden Siren

2006

Drugstore Girl poster
5.2

Pharmaceutical student, Keiko witnesses her boyfriend having an affair. Shocked and disappointed, she jumps on a train ("destination anywhere, east or west, she don't care") and ends up in a town named Masao in Tokyo's remote suburbs. There, she gets a part-time job at a newly opened drugstore. What do ya know.. The local shopping district's middle-aged men all fall for the young girl's charms, and they start practicing lacrosse once they have found out that that's her favourite sport.

Drugstore Girl

2004

All About My Dog poster
6.3

A series of short stories all about dogs.

All About My Dog

2005

Peeping Tom poster
5.5

Two holes appear suddenly on the walls of a cheap apartment where a piddling fiction writer, Makiguri, lives. What he wrote fiercely after that was his own death.

Peeping Tom

2008

Tales of Terror: Haunted Apartment poster
6.2

Aimi and her father move into an old, apartment building and learn quickly that things are not as they seem.

Tales of Terror: Haunted Apartment

2005

Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan Volume 3, Part 2 poster
5.0

A new season of the acclaimed series finishes with these twenty sensational shorts capturing the essence of psychological terror with chilling visuals.

Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan Volume 3, Part 2

2007

Aoi bara satsujin jiken poster
NR

A magazine reporter gets involved in a murder case while covering a rose nursery that's developing a blue rose.

Aoi bara satsujin jiken

1993

The Midnight Girls poster
NR

An omnibus-style youth drama consisting of 4 episodes. Five girls who go to high school near Tokyo. Mio who meets the homeless in Shibuya at night, Akira who had hidden her best friend's happiness, Kaori who loved her teacher...

The Midnight Girls

2006