Ringu

In 1998, director Hideo Nakata (Dark Water) unleashed a chilling tale of technological terror on unsuspecting audiences, which redefined the horror genre, launched the J-horror boom in the West and introduced a generation of moviegoers to a creepy, dark-haired girl called Sadako. The film's success spawned a slew of remakes, reimaginations and imitators, but none could quite boast the power of Nakata's original masterpiece, which melded traditional Japanese folklore with contemporary anxieties about the spread of technology. A group of teenage friends are found dead, their bodies grotesquely contorted, their faces twisted in terror. Reiko (Nanako Matsushima, When Marnie Was There), a journalist and the aunt of one of the victims, sets out to investigate the shocking phenomenon, and in the process uncovers a creepy urban legend about a supposedly cursed videotape, the contents of which causes anyone who views it to die within a week - unless they can persuade someone else to watch it, and, in so doing, pass on the curse...

Producer: Takashige Ichise
Cinematographer: Jun'ichirô Hayashi
Music: Kenji Kawai
Director: Hideo Nakata
Producer: Shinya Kawai
Producer: Takashige Ichese
Producer: Takenori Sentô
Writer: Hiroshi Takahashi
Actor: Nanako Matsushima
Actor: Miki Nakatani
Actor: Hiroyuki Sanada
Actor: Yûko Takeuchi
Actor: Hitomi Sato
Actor: Yoichi Numata
Actor: Yutaka Matsushige
Actor: Katsumi Murumatsu
Actor: Rikiya Otaka
Actor: Masako
Actor: Daisuke Ban
Actor: Kiyoshi Risho