Ringu (1998)

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In this psychological horror story from Japan, a legend circulates among teenagers that if one watches a certain video at a certain time of the night, the telephone will ring right afterward, and one week later, you will die. When Masami (Hitomi Sato) tells her friend Imako this story, she scoffs -- but a week later, Imako dies in an auto accident. Imako's aunt, a television journalist named Reiko (Nanako Matsushima), hears that not long before she died, Imako was watching a strange video with her friends -- all of whom have turned up dead. Reiko tracks down a copy of the video, and as she watches its strange, spectral images, the telephone begins to ring....The next morning, Reiko begins a desperate search to solve the mystery of the video, convinced she has only seven days to live; assisting her is Ryuji (Hiroyuki Sanada), a mathematics expert and her former husband. Ringu was a box-office success in its native Japan, and a surprise blockbuster in Hong Kong, where it became the biggest grossing film of the first half of 1999. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Theatrical Feature Running Time:

96 mins

Complete Cast:

Director(s):

Hideo Nakata

Writer(s):

Hiroshi Takahashi

Producer(s):

Shinya Kawai, Takashige Ichise, Takenori Sendo

Theatrical MPAA Rating:

NR(Adult Situations, Violence)

Categories:

Mystery & Suspense, Horror, Foreign

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