Takeo Saeki
| Takeo Saeki | |
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| Ju-on character | |
Takeo in The Grudge
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| First appearance | Ju-On: The Curse (2000) |
| Last appearance | Ju-on: The Final Curse (2015) |
| Created by | Takashi Shimizu |
| Portrayed by |
Takashi Matsuyama Yasuhito Hida (Ju-on: Beginning of the End, Ju-on: The Final Curse) |
| Information | |
| Full name | Takeo Saeki |
| Species | Onryō |
| Gender | Male |
| Spouse(s) | Kayako Saeki (wife) |
| Children | Toshio Saeki (son) |
| Nationality | Japanese |
Takeo Saeki (佐伯 剛雄 Saeki Takeo?) is a fictional character appearing in the Ju-on film franchises and the husband of Kayako Saeki. Since his introduction up to The Grudge 3, he is portrayed by long-time veteran actor Takashi Matsuyama; he is the only Saeki family member not to be portrayed by multiple actors. However, Matsuyama was replaced by actor Yasuhito Hida for the 2014 Japanese reboot, Ju-on: Beginning of the End, and its sequel Ju-on: The Final Curse.
Takeo Saeki is an illustrator working in Nerima, Tokyo when he meets Kayako Kawamata. He falls in love and marries her, eventually fathering her child, Toshio.
As evidenced in the Ju-on novelization, Takeo Saeki is very possessive and jealous of anyone who steals Kayako's attention; when his wife says she likes a particular actor on TV, he gets very angry.
One day, he finds Kayako's diary and reads it. He is struck by uncontrollable rage when he learns that Kayako is in love with a man named Shunsuke Kobayashi, Toshio's school teacher and Kayako's first love back in college. He becomes obsessed with the idea that Kayako is cheating on him, and that Toshio is Kobayashi's child.
When Kayako gets home, Takeo attacks his wife, breaking her neck and slashing her with a box cutter, then hiding her body in the attic. As seen in the American remake of the first Ju-on movie, he drowns Toshio along with his beloved black pet cat Mar. Takeo runs to Kobayashi's apartment and kills Manami (小林 真奈美 Kobayashi Manami) and takes her premature baby. He then calls Kobayashi by using the bloody phone booth, saying he would be leaving him to raise Toshio because he thought 'up until now, he had raised him in his place'. Then after hitting the dead female fetus around in a sack, he falls on some garbage bags, one of them actually heading towards him and containing Kayako's dead spirit who eventually kills him on that street.
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