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The Ring 1

NAKATA Hideo

Japan199895min 35mm Color

Synopsis

​Reilko is a television reporter investigating the deaths of her niece and three of her friends. She travels to the cabin where the girls spent their last weekend to discover more, only to find a strange, unsettling video there. She and her ex-husband, a mathematics professor named Ryuji, are led to the island of Oshima and lean of Sadako. She was an island girl who was the subject of scandalous experiments a generation earlier. Their search for a way to lift the video’s cures is made more desperate when Reiko’s son watches the video. They race back to the resort cabin where the video was found and discover a skeleton is an abandoned well. They assume the curse has been lifted. Reiko’s son passes the week with no ill-effects, but Ryuji dies after watching a figure come for him out of his TV screen. With her son sill in danger, Reiko must find a way to lift the curse. Perhaps if she showed the video to someone else

Diretor

NAKATA Hideo

Born in 1961, Hideo Nakata graduated Tokyo University. Joining the Nikkatsu Studio, Nakata directed < Ghost Actress > and < Ring > which resulted in great success. < Dark Water > is his first film after he left the studio.