| Ring 2 | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Hideo Nakata |
| Produced by | Masato Hara |
| Written by | Hiroshi Takahashi |
| Starring | Masahiro Motoki Ryō Yasutaka Tsutsui Shiho Fujimura Akaji Maro Kenjiro Ishimaru |
| Music by | Kenji Kawai |
| Cinematography | Hideo Yamamoto |
| Editing by | Nobuyuki Takahashi |
| Release date(s) |  July 28, 1999 |
| Running time | 92 min. Hideo Nakata (中田 秀夫 Nakata Hideo, born July 19, 1961, in Okayama, Japan) is a Japanese film director born is a Japanese model and actress. Profile Height 166cm Blood type O Star Sign Yasutaka Tsutsui (筒井 康隆 Tsutsui Yasutaka, September 24, 1934 -) is a Japanese Novelist, Shiho Fujimura (藤村志保 Fujimura Shiho, born 3 January 1939 in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese is a Japanese Actor, Butoka, and Theater director. He was born in Sakurai Nara and is the founder of Dairakudakan. is a Japanese Actor and announcer He is currently seen in the Kamen Rider series Kamen Rider Den-O as the owner of the DenLiner. is a Japanese manga artist. Yamamoto made his professional debut in 1989 by drawing the manga Sheep, written by Masahiko Takasho. Events 1540 - Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of Treason. The year 1999 in film involved some significant events and was arguably the most successful year for films released in the 1990s |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Preceded by | Ring |
| Followed by | Rasen |
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For the 2005 American horror film, see The Ring Two. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities is a 1998 Japanese horror mystery Film from director Hideo Nakata, adapted from the novel of the same name 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 The Ring Two is a 2005 American Horror film, and a Sequel to the 2002 film The Ring, which
Ring 2 (リング2 Ringu 2) (1999), directed by Hideo Nakata, is the sequel to the Japanese horror film, Ring. Hideo Nakata (中田 秀夫 Nakata Hideo, born July 19, 1961, in Okayama, Japan) is a Japanese film director A sequel is a work in Literature, Film, or other media that portrays events following those of a previous work For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Horror films are Movies that strive to elicit Fear, Horror and terror responses from viewers is a 1998 Japanese horror mystery Film from director Hideo Nakata, adapted from the novel of the same name
Ring was originally a novel written by Koji Suzuki; its sequel, Rasen (aka Spiral), was also adapted into a movie as the Ring movie's sequel. Koji Suzuki (鈴木光司 Suzuki Kōji born May 13 1957) is a Japanese Writer, who was born in Hamamatsu and currently 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 Not to be confused with the Japanese graphic novel " Uzumaki " which translates as "whirlpool" or "vortex" or the 1999 Japanese movie Ring 2 However, due to the poor response to Rasen, Ring 2 was made as a new sequel to Ring, not based on Suzuki's works, and thus ultimately ignores the story of Rasen.
Plot
Some time after the first film, Mai Takano searches for answers in regards to Ryuji Takayama's sudden death. Ryuji Takayama is a fictional character in the Ringu cycle, appearing and mentioned in Koji Suzuki's novels Ring This leads her into a collision course with Ryuji's ex-wife Reiko and her son Yoichi, both of whom have been in hiding out of fear from the authorities. 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 Character Yoichi Asakawa born 1990, is the seven-year-old son of Reiko Asakawa and Ryuji Takayama. Yoichi, having endured the curse of the tape, begins exhibiting Sadako Yamamura's psychic abilities at the cost of him becoming a mute. The Cursed Videotape is a fictional item in the Ring cycle series of books and films 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, The word psychic (ˈsaɪkɨk from the Greek psychikos—"of the soul mental" refers to the claimed ability to perceive things hidden from the normal senses The MUTE Network (or MUTE-net) is a Peer-to-peer and Friend-to-friend File sharing network developed with anonymity in mind Meanwhile, the curse of the tape claims another victim, Kanae Sawagouchi, who was betrayed by Okazaki when he didn't watch the tape as promised. This results in Kanae's ghost returning and driving Okazaki into madness.
While inspecting Sadako's corpse, the forensic experts noted evidence that Sadako had died only a year ago, meaning that she was still alive in the sealed well for almost 30 years. They later reconstruct her body and send it to Takaishi, who takes it on his boat and later sets it loose into the bottom of the ocean.
Despite trying to keep their whereabouts hidden, Mai is coerced by the authorities, who close in on Reiko and Yoichi. Coercion (co-er-shion is the practice of compelling a person or manipulating them to behave in an involuntary way (whether through action or inaction by use of threats At the station, Mai runs into Yoichi and utilizes her limited psychic abilities to tell him to flee. Yoichi regains his voice, which alerts Reiko. Both of them escape, but Reiko experiences a vision where her late father, who watched the tape some time ago to save Yoichi, appears. He tells her that "the child you carry with you isn't Yoichi anymore". Reiko is killed by a truck, having never recovered from the vision. The police arrive but Yoichi focuses his killing intent on one of the detectives for a moment, before Mai interrupts and whisks Yoichi away.
The next morning, Mai and Yoichi head for Izu, hoping to look for answers from Takaishi Yamamura, owner of an inn and Sadako's last living relative. One of the doctors, who experiments with spirit photography or nensha, arrives with equipment and is looking for Mai. That same night, Mai returns to the Inn, having been taken to the River of Offering by Takaishi. Mai and the doctor see a vision of Shizuko combing her hair in front of a mirror and Sadako walking in, a scene from the video tape. This was actually caused by Yoichi, who was thinking of his mother at the time.
The next day, the doctor sets his equipment up next to a pool of fresh water which serves to negate Sadako's energies from Yoichi. Mai is hooked up as a channeler. The process starts and suddenly becomes chaotic when Yoichi's powers awaken. Takaishi, seeing Sadako's coffin in the pool, swims out towards it and is killed while yelling "Take me! End this with me!" Later, the doctor, possessed by Sadako's influence commits suicide by electrocution, which also kills the nurse trying to stop him. Mai takes the device off her head and runs to Yoichi before blacking out.
Waking up, Mai and Yoichi find themselves in the well before both of them fall in. Ryuji appears, telling Yoichi and Mai to give him their fear in order to escape. Ryuji's grip leaves nensha marks on Yoichi's hand. The well opens and the end of a rope is dropped down into the well. Mai and Yoichi scale up the well when Sadako appears, asking them, "Why is it you were saved?" Possibly asking Mai as to why she was able to escape the well when Sadako herself couldn't. Sadako falls back into the well as Mai and Yoichi escape.
Mai and Yoichi emerge from well, only to find themselves in the same pool they were in earlier. The bodies of Takaishi, the doctor, and the nurse lay around the two as they reach the catwalk, fortunate to have survived.
In the hospital, a nurse comes into a holding room to take Okazaki's picture before leaving. As the photo develops, her eyes widen in shock before looking back at the room. Behind Okazaki is the laughing ghost of Kanae Sawagouchi. are figures in Japanese folklore, analogous to Western legends of Ghosts The name consists of two Kanji, 幽 ( yuu) meaning "faint"
Trivia
- A new curse with a new videotape by a new girl is created by the end of the film, which instead of killing the viewer, drives them insane. Had Nakata helmed Ring 3, this would have been expanded on.
- The wailing sound effects heard during the start of the swimming pool scene were originally used for the creature Biollante in Godzilla vs. Biollante. Appearance At first Biollante was a giant rose with teeth inside her bud and long vines (merely a heavily-mutated and exceptionally is a 1989 daikaiju film the seventeenth entry in Toho 's Godzilla series and a direct sequel to The Return of Godzilla.
External links
- the Ring AREA - Contains of the cursed videos of the Ring cycle and their scene-by-scene analyses, as well as lots of other useful information.
- Ringu 2 at the Internet Movie Database
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