While investigating the horrifying death of her boyfriend, Mai Takano learns about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a disturbing girl named Sadako, which kills anyone who watches it exactly one week later. When her boyfriend’s son, Yoichi, starts to develop the same psychic abilities as Sadako, Takano must find a way to keep the boy and herself from becoming the next victims.
Direction
Nakata's water imagery reaches fetishistic, beautiful excess.
Acting
Miki Nakatani elevates thin material with pure committed panic.
Director
Hideo Nakata
Miki Nakatani
Mai Takano
Hitomi Sato
Masami Kurahashi
Kyoko Fukada
Kanae Sawaguchi
Fumiyo Kohinata
Dr. Kawajiri
Kenjirou Ishimaru
Detective Omuta
Yûrei Yanagi
Okazaki
Rikiya Ôtaka
Yôichi Asakawa
Yōichi Numata
Takashi Yamamura
Masako
Shizuko Yamamura
Miwako Kaji
Kazue Yamamura
Daisuke Ban
Heihachirô Ikuma
Rie Ino'o
Sadako Yamamura
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This adapts Koji Suzuki's 'Spiral' novel, not a direct sequel to his 'Ring'—explaining the jarring tonal shift and science-heavy asylum plot.
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