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Ringu

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Nanako Matsushima (Actor), Miki Nakatani (Actor), Hideo Nakata (Director) Rated: Unrated

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A grainy, enigmatic videotape has the power to kill people seven days after they watch it. This brilliant premise fueled the 2002 Hollywood hit The Ring, but before that it conquered Japan in Ringu, Hideo Nakata's quietly unsettling study in terror. Fans of the U.S. version will find a less elaborate storyline and more primal fear in the original; the basic plot, however, still has a worried reporter (Nanako Matsushima) tracking down the meaning of the video--and, having watched it herself, she has only a week to work. The film's calm, economical style actually adds to the creeping sense of dread throughout, and the hair-curling set-pieces stand out in contrast. Like an old photograph of something evil, Ringu has the strange-but-familiar power to unnerve. Guaranteed, its effect will linger for at least seven days. Longer... if you're lucky. --Robert Horton

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Actors: Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Yûko Takeuchi, Hitomi Satô, Yôichi Numata
Directors: Hideo Nakata
Writers: Hiroshi Takahashi, Kôji Suzuki
Producers: Makoto Ishihara, Masato Hara, Shin'ya Kawai, Takashige Ichise, Takenori Sentô
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: Japanese (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: Unrated
Studio: Dreamworks Video
DVD Release Date: March 4, 2003
Run Time: 96 minutes
Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (188 customer reviews)
ASIN: B000088NQR
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,405 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #779 in Movies & TV > DVD > Foreign Films
- #1455 in Movies & TV > DVD > Horror
- #4242 in Movies & TV > DVD > Mystery & Thrillers

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Seriously Awesome!

ByAmazon Customeron January 28, 2016

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This movie is seriously awesome and not a lot of people I talk to actually give it credit. Like "The Ring" is a classic or something like that and I tell them "No, Ringu is a classic, not The Ring." Then what I do is invite them over to my house and show it to them and most of them think Ringu is better because....it is! The product itself also came super fast and was in very good condition. All in all, I am satisfied with my purchase and would definitely recommend this movie who is interested in Mystery, Horror, or Suspense because this movie has all of that!

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The Original

ByDana Wheatonon March 7, 2015

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It is a little awkward watching the original film in a franchise after you've seen the big American version. One of the things I enjoy about Japanese Horror is they understand that gore is not what makes a film scary. Like the American version, some of the scariest elements are the B&W video & B&W memories.

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Had seen the US version several times, and wanted ...

ByDonald F. Donahueon September 6, 2015

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Had seen the US version several times, and wanted to see the original. Definitely worth seeing, very creepy and scary -- didn't think it was significantly more scary than the US version (as we had expected), but a bit creepier.

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A true eerie atmosphere when the tape rolls...

BySwederunneron June 1, 2003

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A teenage girl dies after she has watched a video and her cousin Reiko, who is a reporter, begins to investigate what killed her niece. Reiko gets a hold of the same tape, which she watches and odd things begin to happen. She asks her ex-husband Ryuji to help her and he watches the tape too. Their research and the myths say that one will die seven days after one has seen the tape. Reiko and Ryuji now have to fight time in order to not only find an answer as to why people die, but also save their own lives. Ringu is a very chilling horror story that uses the technique of both contemporary horror as well as old fashion horror with a delicate touch. The film masters the elements of both surprise and expectation, and this crafts a truly great horror story that will keep the audience squirming and sweating in their seats.

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Lean

ByMICHAEL ACUNAon May 23, 2003

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This is the original Japanese version of the American "The Ring."
What is so striking about this Japanese version is that it is so lean, devoid of extraneous, supposedly illuminating detail. The Japanese get right to the meat of a particular scene assuming that we will put the pieces together in our mind and therefore there is no reason to spell it out/hammer us over the head with extraneous exposition. In the process they anoint their audience with a lot more credit for being intelligent than do the Americans.
Another interesting point is that, in the American version, the Naomi Watts character is the main protagonist while her ex is merely eye-candy. But in this film Asagawa, the female lead shares the spotlight with her ex-husband who has a lot to do with the denouement and therefore the solving of the mystery.
As to the question, which version is scarier: it's a draw with the American version having a slight edge I think because the world of "The Ring" is more familiar to us than is that of "Ringu" and as such we can relate more to the everyday horror of it.

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Wait Until the End

ByEASon November 5, 2004

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Having been a fan of horror movies since I was a kid, I've come to a point where nothing scares me. Then one day I saw Ringu and its slow pace at first turned me off but when I reached the end not only was I truly scared, I was scared for days after, even just thinking about it. I've become a fan of Japanese horror movies and Dark Water was just as scary. I love American horror, but sometimes it's just so obvious and they always go for the blood and gore. Now I like the slow pace, watching the characters doing daily chores, just like we do in our lives. They seem a lot more like real people than in American horror films so the horror that they experience makes you think that it could happen to you. Face it, none of us are going skinning dipping in a lake and having a guy with a chainsaw come after us, but all of us go to the grocery store, make dinner and many of us pick kids up from school. It's the monsters that invade our normal lives which have the power to terrify.

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Original

ByJaylynon December 10, 2004

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This is a pretty creative story, and although I did see the American version first, I credit this for it's originality and eeriness. One thing that affects all of us is we like to watch videos, so to suggest that to do something so simple could be horrorfying is pretty cool. Although the American version is more visually detailed, the faces of the victims resembling drowned victims is much more clever than the scared to death faces of Ringu since the girl did drown to death, also the video tape in the American version was more disturbing, however the American version left more holes in the actual story that Ringu cleared up for me. For instance the reason the little girl was... the way she was. Ringu is a little more scientific, explaining the girl to be protective of her Mother where in The Ring the girl seemed to be simply pure evil. I've found Ringu to be more interesting and less horrorfying than The Ring. But there is one thing that both movies were equal about and begged the question, where is DHS?