Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit.
Acting
Yukie Nakama's devastating transformation from fragile to fearsome.
Direction
Tsuruta's theatrical staging mirrors Sadako's performative existence.
Director
Norio Tsuruta
Yukie Nakama
Sadako Yamamura
Seiichi Tanabe
Hiroshi Tôyama
Kumiko Aso
Etsuko Tachihara
Yoshiko Tanaka
Akiko Miyaji
Takeshi Wakamatsu
Yûsaku Shigemori
Ryushi Mizukami
Wataru Kuno
Kaoru Okunuki
Aiko Hazuki
Yasushi Kimura
Togashi
Mami Hashimoto
Joshikôsei
Daisuke Ban
Heihachirô Ikuma
Masako
Shizuko Yamamura
Yoshiyuki Morishita
Gekidan Kenkyûsei
Atsuko Takahata
Kaoru Arima
Yoji Tanaka
Dansei Kyôyu (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Koji Suzuki's short story 'Birthday,' not directly on his Ring novel. The theatre setting was Tsuruta's invention.
The 1998 Ringu boom made Sadako a global icon; this prequel humanized her just as Western J-horror remakes were flattening Japanese ghosts into jump-scare machines.
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