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Ringu (リング, The Ring) is a
1997
Japanese
horror film by
Hideo Nakata, later
remade and released in the
United States by director
Gore Verbinski as
The Ring. Both films have to do with a bizarre videotape which
kills its viewer within a week of watching it.
There were two sequels in Japan, The Ring 2 and The Ring 0.
There was also a
Korean remake titled The Ring Virus. The international
success of the original launched a revival of horror filmmaking in Japan
that resulted in such pictures as
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's
Pulse and
Takashi Shimizu's
Ju-on.
The film was derived from a
best-selling novel of the same name, by
Koji Suzuki, often referred to as Japan's
Stephen King.
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