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The Ring 2

NAKATA Hideo

Japan199995min 35mm Color

Synopsis

Professor Ryuji Takayama dies mysteriously after uncovering the body of a woman sealed in a well thirty years earlier. Mai Takano, Ryuji’s assistant and girlfriend, tries to find Ryuji’s ex-wife, Reiko, and her son. Meanwhile Reiko’s assistant, Okazaki, has taken over his mentor’s story about a cursed video that kills. Okazaki is given a copy of the video by Kanae, a high school student who begs Okazaki to watch the video to save her life. He does not do Mai is intuitively led to Reiko’s son Yoichi, The boy has seen the video. Though alive, he is now mute and somehow possessed by the ghost of Sadako. In an attempt to rid the boy of Sadako’s ghost, she takes him to the island of Oshima. Perhaps there Yoishi can be free from the ghost that haunts him.

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.