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Ring

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Directed by Hideo Nakata
Produced by Taka Ichise
Written by Hiroshi Takahashi
Starring Nanako Matsushima
Hiroyuki Sanada
Rikiya Otaka
Yoichi Numata
Cinematography Junichirō Hayashi
Editing by Nobuyuki Takahashi
Distributed by Toho Company Ltd.
Release date(s) January 31, 1998 (Japan)
Running time 96 min. Hideo Nakata (中田 秀夫 Nakata Hideo, born July 19, 1961, in Okayama, Japan) is a Japanese film director is a Japanese actress and model She is known outside Japan for her role in the horror film Ring. is a Japanese Actor. Biography Early life Sanada was born in Tokyo, Japan. is a Japanese actor In 1997, when he was only six he was chosen out of many young boys to play the part of the little seven-year-old Yoichi Asakawa in Ringu is a large Japanese Independent film Studio. It is headquartered in Chiyoda Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group Events 1504 - France cedes Naples to Aragon. 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics.
Language Japanese
Budget $1. is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities 2 million
Preceded by Ring 0: Birthday
Followed by Ring 2
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Ring (リング Ringu?) is a 1998 Japanese horror mystery film from director Hideo Nakata, adapted from the novel of the same name by Koji Suzuki, which draws from the Japanese folk tale Banchō Sarayashiki. Ring 0 Birthday (リング0 2009 Ringu 0 2009) is a 2000 Japanese film the Prequel to the film Ring. For the 2005 American horror film see The Ring Two. Ring 2 (リング2 Ringu 2) (1999 directed by Hideo Nakata, is the A list of Films released in Japan in 1998. 1998 The cinema of Japan (日本映画 J-Horror is a term used to refer to Japanese contributions to Horror fiction in popular culture Mystery film is a sub-genre of the more general category of Crime film. A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. Hideo Nakata (中田 秀夫 Nakata Hideo, born July 19, 1961, in Okayama, Japan) is a Japanese film director is a Japanese horror novel by Koji Suzuki, first published in 1991 and set in modern day Japan Koji Suzuki (鈴木光司 Suzuki Kōji born May 13 1957) is a Japanese Writer, who was born in Hamamatsu and currently Banchō Sarayashiki, （番町皿屋敷） ( The Dish Mansion at Banchō) is a Japanese ghost story of love separated by Social class, and broken trust The film stars Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Rikiya Otaka as members of a divorced family, each cursed by a videotape. is a Japanese actress and model She is known outside Japan for her role in the horror film Ring. is a Japanese Actor. Biography Early life Sanada was born in Tokyo, Japan. is a Japanese actor In 1997, when he was only six he was chosen out of many young boys to play the part of the little seven-year-old Yoichi Asakawa in Ringu The film was later remade in Korea as The Ring Virus (1999), and in the United States as The Ring (2002). A " remake' " is a term used to described something that has been done again sometimes with better Quality, and usually with more features Korean cinema encompasses the motion picture industries of North Korea and South Korea. The Ring Virus (aka 링(링 바이러스 'Virus' Ring is a South Korean horror adapted from a novel by Koji Suzuki. United States cinema has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century The Ring is a 2002 American remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film of the same name (also known as Ringu) The year 2002 in film involved some significant events The first significant releases of sequels took place between Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,

The film is the highest grossing horror film in Japan at 15. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. 9 billion yen ($137. 7 million) and is also considered the most frightening horror movie in Japan according to the investigation of Oricon. established in 1999 is the Holding company at the head of a Japanese Corporate group that supplies Statistics and information on music and the Music industry [1]

Contents

Plot

The film begins with two teenagers, Masami (Hitomi Sato) and Tomoko (Yuko Takeuchi) talking about a videotape recorded by a boy in Izu which is fabled to bear a curse that kills the viewer seven days after watching. Izu (伊豆国 -no kuni was a province of Japan including the Izu Peninsula that is today part of Shizuoka prefecture and the Izu Islands Tomoko then reveals that a week ago, she and three of her friends watched a weird tape and received a call after watching it. Unnervingly similar to the fabled videotape, Masami realizes that Tomoko was fated to die. After some unsettling moments, Tomoko mysteriously dies with Masami having the horror of watching.

Some days later and Asakawa Reiko (Nanako Matsushima), a reporter investigating the popularity of the video curse among teenagers, discovers that her niece, Tomoko and her three other friends mysteriously died at the same time on the same night with their faces twisted in a rictus of fear. is a Japanese actress and model She is known outside Japan for her role in the horror film Ring. She also discovers that Masami, the girl who was with Tomoko when she died, went crazy and is now in a mental hospital. After stumbling upon Tomoko's photos from the past week, Reiko finds out that the four teenagers stayed in a rental cabin in Izu. Eventually, she finds a photo of them with the teens' faces blurred.

Later, Reiko goes to Izu and finds an unlabelled tape in the reception room of the rental cottage where the teenagers stayed. Watching the tape inside Cabin B4, Reiko sees the tape containing a series of seemingly unrelated disturbing images. As soon as the tape is over, Reiko receives a phone call, a realisation of the tell-tale videotape curse. Then on, she now assumes that she has a week to live.

On the first day, Reiko enlists the help of her ex-husband, Ryuji Takayama (Hiroyuki Sanada), who watches the tape. is a Japanese Actor. Biography Early life Sanada was born in Tokyo, Japan. A day later and Reiko creates a copy for Ryuji for them to study. They find a hidden message embedded within the tape saying that "if you 'shoumon' on seawater, the 'boukon' will come for you. " The message is in a form of dialect from Oshima Island. The two sail for Oshima (after Asakawa's son watches the videotape) and discover the history of the great psychic Yamamura Shizuko.

With only a day left, Reiko and Ryuji discovered that Shizuko's lost daughter, Sadako, must have made the videotape. Determined, the two go back to Izu with the assumption that Sadako is dead and it was her vengeful spirit that killed the teenagers. Onryō (怨霊 is a Japanese ghost who is able to return to the physical world in order to seek Vengeance. The duo then uncover a well under Cabin B4 and try to empty it after realising that, through a vision, Sadako's father killed her and threw her into the well. They try to empty the well and find the Sadako's body in an attempt to appease her spirit. Reiko finds Sadako's body. When nothing happens to her they believe that the curse is broken.

All seems fine until the next day when Sadako crawls out of Ryuji's TV set and kills him. Desperate to find a cure to save her son, Reiko realized what she did something that Ryuji didn't, thus saving her: she copied the tape and showed it to him. With a VCR and Ryuji's copy of the tape, Reiko rides to her son in attempt to save him, realising that this is a neverending cycle—the tape must always be copied and passed on to ensure the survival of the viewers.

Production

After the initial success of the Ring novel, written by Koji Suzuki, Kadokawa Shoten decided to make a motion picture adaptation of the Ring. is a Japanese horror novel by Koji Suzuki, first published in 1991 and set in modern day Japan Koji Suzuki (鈴木光司 Suzuki Kōji born May 13 1957) is a Japanese Writer, who was born in Hamamatsu and currently The whole production work took nine months and five weeks[2] The movie's screenwriter, Hiroshi Takahashi, and director, Hideo Nakata, collaborated to work on the script after reading the novel and the TV adaptation of Ring[3]. With the budget of 1. 2 million USD, the shooting began which took five weeks to complete. [4] The special effects on the cursed videotape and some parts in the films was shot on a 35 mm film which was passed on in a laboratory in which a computer added the grainy effect[5]. Film grain or granularity is the random optical texture of processed Photographic film due to the presence of small grains of a metallic silver developed from Another part of the movie where extended visual effects was used was in the part where the ghost of Sadako Yamamura climbs out the television. First, they had the Kabuki Theater actress Inou Rie to shoot her walking jerkily backwards. They then played the film in reverse to give her the weird motion of Sadako[6].

Reception

On its release on Japan, Ring garnered a lot of viewers making it the highest grossing movie in that country[7].

It garnered mostly positive reviews from viewers. Rotten Tomatoes had its freshness rating of 96%, with 24 reviews counted, 23 were positive[8]. IMDb had Ringu an average rating of 7. 6/10[9].

Critics of the movie praised the movies story of the film for creating a spooky atmosphere although some are disappointed for not being scared at all. Michael Thomson of BBC films, rated it 4 out of 5 stars after being amazed by the film, he wrote "Its story is constructed around a beautifully simple idea, that those who watch an extremely unnerving, grainy video (and receive a phone call immediately afterwards), will die exactly one week later, always with a severely twisted, freaked-out expression on their faces. "[10] Christopher Null of filmcritic. com said, "Ringu is very atmospheric and often creepy, especially in its last half hour, but it's hardly chilling enough to keep you up at night. "[11]

Sequels and adaptations

There were two sequels shot in Japan: Rasen (also from 1998, aka Spiral) and Ring 2 (from 1999, and which was not based on Suzuki's works), as well as a prequel, Ring 0: Birthday (2000). Rasen ( Spiral) is a sequel to the movie Ring. It is directed by Joji Iida, and as with the first movie is based on a novel For the 2005 American horror film see The Ring Two. Ring 2 (リング2 Ringu 2) (1999 directed by Hideo Nakata, is the A prequel is a work that portrays events and/or aspects of a previously completed narrative but is set prior to the existing narrative Ring 0 Birthday (リング0 2009 Ringu 0 2009) is a 2000 Japanese film the Prequel to the film Ring. The year 2000 in film involved some significant events Events Top grossing films Please note that following the tradition of the There was also a Korean remake (called Ring in Korea and The Ring Virus abroad) that was the first ever joint film making venture between Korea and Japan. The Ring Virus (aka 링(링 바이러스 'Virus' Ring is a South Korean horror adapted from a novel by Koji Suzuki. A video game, known as The Ring: Terror's Realm in the U. The Ring Terror's Realm (known simply as Ring in Japan is a video game developed by Asmik Ace Entertainment and published by Infogrames S. , was also released in 2000 for the Dreamcast. The is Sega 's most recent Video game console and the successor to the Sega Saturn.

The international success of the Japanese films launched a revival of horror filmmaking in Japan that resulted in such pictures as Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2001 film Pulse (known as Circuit (回路 Kairo?) in Japan), Takashi Shimizu's The Grudge (呪怨 Juon?) (2000), Hideo Nakata's Dark Water (仄暗い水の底から Honogurai mizu no soko kara?, literally The Depths of Dark Water), also based on a short story by Suzuki), and Higuchinsky's Uzumaki (2000, aka Vortex, based on the Junji Ito horror manga of the same name). is a Japanese filmmaker best known for his many contributions to the J-horror genre The year 2001 in film involved some significant events (For more about non-English films check sources in those languages is a 2001 J-Horror Film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. The film was based on his novel of the same name and was released in the US in 2005 Takashi Shimizu (清水 崇 Shimizu Takashi, born 27 July 1972 in Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture, is the title of a series of Horror films by Japanese director Takashi Shimizu. Dark Water is a 2002 Japanese horror film directed by Hideo Nakata, the director of Ring and Ring 2 is a Japanese horror movie directed by Higuchinsky. Uzumaki, released in 2000, is based on Junji Ito 's episodic Manga Junji Ito (伊藤潤二 Itō Junji, July 1963 -) is an author of Japanese horror Manga. ˈmɑŋgə is the Japanese word for Comics (sometimes called komikku コミック and print Cartoons In their modern form manga date from shortly

Most of the Ring stories also appeared as manga novels. ˈmɑŋgə is the Japanese word for Comics (sometimes called komikku コミック and print Cartoons In their modern form manga date from shortly

Cast

See also

References

  1. ^ 最も怖いジャパニーズホラー映画ランキングTOP10！ ニュース-ORICON STYLE
  2. ^ http://www.horschamp.qc.ca/new_offscreen/nakata.html Pre-production, including writing the script was about 3-4 months, postproduction about 4 months, and shooting itself about 5 weeks. is a Japanese actress and model She is known outside Japan for her role in the horror film Ring. Ring Reiko Asakawa is a Single mother in her early to mid-twenties who struggles to juggle both her job as an investigative journalist and raising is a Japanese actress and Singer. Nakatani was born in Tokyo, Japan and began her professional career as a member of a singing group is a Japanese Actor. Biography Early life Sanada was born in Tokyo, Japan. Ryuji Takayama is a fictional character in the Ringu cycle, appearing and mentioned in Koji Suzuki's novels Ring is a Japanese actress She made her big break with NHK 's television series Asuka and JT Green 's commercial is a Japanese Actor. Selected filmography 2007 Sukiyaki Western Django 2003 Last Life is a Japanese actor In 1997, when he was only six he was chosen out of many young boys to play the part of the little seven-year-old Yoichi Asakawa in Ringu Character Yoichi Asakawa born 1990, is the seven-year-old son of Reiko Asakawa and Ryuji Takayama. Masako is a female Japanese given name. People named Masako include the following Crown Princess Masako of Japan (雅子皇太子妃殿下 Character Sadako's character is not directly portrayed in Ring, but is expanded briefly in Rasen and to a much greater extent in Ring 0 Birthday, J-Horror is a term used to refer to Japanese contributions to Horror fiction in popular culture Onryō (怨霊 is a Japanese ghost who is able to return to the physical world in order to seek Vengeance. Yotsuya Kaidan (四谷怪談 the story of Oiwa and Tamiya Iemon is a tale of betrayal murder and ghostly revenge. Character Sadako's character is not directly portrayed in Ring, but is expanded briefly in Rasen and to a much greater extent in Ring 0 Birthday,
  3. ^ http://www.theringworld.com/anolis.php Well, of course, the first thing I did was read the book, following which I and [scriptwriter] Takahashi Hiroshi spent about six months thinking about the screenplay. I also watched the TV version.
  4. ^ http://www.horschamp.qc.ca/new_offscreen/nakata.html shooting itself about 5 weeks.
  5. ^ http://www.horschamp.qc.ca/new_offscreen/nakata.html
  6. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0178868/trivia
  7. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0178868/trivia
  8. ^ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ringu/
  9. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0178868/ratings
  10. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2000/08/16/ring_review.shtml
  11. ^ http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/84dbbfa4d710144986256c290016f76e/1fd609937682ff7c88256cad0000fc3c?OpenDocument

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