Cinema
Ring
リング
Hideo Nakata · 1998
Synopsis
A rumour is spreading among schoolchildren: watching a certain videotape means death a week later. Tomoko talks about it with a friend, then dies. Her aunt, Reiko Asakawa, a journalist, learns that three of the girl's friends died at the same moment. In a cabin in Izu, she finds an unlabelled tape, watches it and receives a strange phone call. Believing herself cursed, with seven days ahead of her according to AlloCiné, she asks for the help of her former husband, Ryūji, who has clairvoyant gifts, to trace the tape back to its origin.
Context
The film adapts a book by Suzuki Kōji published in 1991, already made for television in 1995 according to Moria. The hero of the book becomes a heroine, divorced and the mother of a boy. It was shot at the same time as a second film drawn from the sequel in the same cycle, and the two were released together on 31 January 1998, distributed by Tōhō. It earned about 1.7 billion yen in Japan and was remade in the United States in 2002.
Who it is for
Ninety-five minutes of horror around a cursed tape and a one-week countdown.
Prizes and reception
A great success in Japan, it spawned sequels and a new American version, and was rereleased in France in 2022.
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