Ringu

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Starring:

Nanako Matsushima as Reiko Asakawa
Miki Nakatani as Mai Takano
Hiroyuki Sanada as Ryuji Takayama
Yuko Takeuchi as Tomoko Oishi
Hitomi Sato as Masami Kurahashi
Yoichi Numata as Takashi Yamamura
Yutaka Matsushige as Yoshino

Release year: 1998

Language: Japanese

Subtitle: English

Synopsis:

Reiko Asakawa is researching into a 'Cursed Video' interviewing kids about it. When her niece Tomoko dies of 'sudden heart failure' with a face of terror on her, Reiko investigates. Shes finds out that some of Tomoko's friends who had been on a holiday with Tomoko the week before had died on exactly the same night at the exact same time in the exact same way. Reiko goes to the cabin where the teens had stayed and finds an 'unlabled' video tape. Reiko watched the tape to discover its the 'cursed videotape'. Ex Husband Ryuji helps Reiko solve the mystery, Reiko makes a copy for him. Things become more tense when her son Yoichi watches the tape saying Tomoko had told him too. They discovery takes them to a volcanic island where they discover that the video has a connection to a Pyscic who died 30 years ago, and her child Sadako...

Rating: 10/10
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Review:
" Japanese finger-trembler 'Ring' is often described as vastly superior to 'The Ring', its remade American version from 2002. Personally, I'd have to call it a dead heat between the pair of them, with both movies inflicting the frighteners in different ways, despite basically sticking to the same lines.

Hideo Nakata's original, it's name changed here from 'Ringu' (presumably to avoid confusion with the penguin), introduces the technology-driven terror of a video even more horrifying than 'Police Academy: Mission to Moscow' on VHS. Whoever watches the vid (we're left to assume it hasn't been released yet on DVD) receives a creepy phonecall telling them they'll snuff it in seven day's time. Someone really should think about getting those calls traced by the phone company.

One such viewer is journalist Reiko (Nanako Matsushima), who soon sets about recruiting ex-hubby Ryuji (Hiroyuki Sanada) in attempting to track down the source of the spine-tingling tape before her deadline expires - literally. To make matters worse, she's got an ankle-biter called Yoichi (Rikiya Otaka) who also decides to watch the deadly video. The little fool! Couldn't he just stick to 'Barney' like all the other kids?

Though completely gore-free and also containing very few real shocks, this is quite possibly as scary a film as you'll see. That's thanks mainly to some convincing acting, fantastic application of dark atmospherics, and a sparingly-used but hugely effective soundtrack. Those who watch Gore Verbinski's remake first will be disappointed the horse scene - one of the most memorable features of the US version - isn't in this one. Verbinski's version also has a more interesting background story and doesn't rely as heavily on everyone apparently having ESP in order to move logically from one stage to the next.

Regardless, this is one of the most effective horror flicks I can ever recall seeing, with a fantastically foreboding ending (note the similarities between the final shot in this and in "

Source: Movie Gazette

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