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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. The film stars Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Rikiya Otaka as members of a divorced family, each cursed by a videotape. The film was later remade in Korea as The Ring Virus (1999), and in the United States as The Ring (2002).

The film is the highest grossing horror film in Japan at 15.9 billion yen ($137.7 million) and is also considered the most frightening horror movie in Japan according to the investigation of Oricon.

Plot

A news reporter, Reiko Asakawa, is doing a feature on the sudden inexplicable death of her niece and several of her friends who, it is rumored, died exactly one week after watching a cursed videotape.

Her investigation leads her to a vacation resort where she locates the tape and, upon watching the film, which contains a surreal array of images, is cursed.

Helped by her ex-husband Ryūji (Hiroyuki Sanada), Reiko unearths information about the cryptic film and learns that the woman in the tape is the long-dead psychic Shizuko. Reiko and Ryūji decipher that Shizuko's daughter, Sadako, who was killed three decades earlier, is the vengeful spirit behind the curse. With the week coming to a close, Reiko must break the supernatural curse to save her and her son's lives.

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). 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. A video game, known as The Ring: Terror's Realm in the U.S., was also released in 2000 for the Dreamcast.

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