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| | Product Details | | Actors: | Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Hiroyuki Sanada, Yuko Takeuchi, Hitomi Sato | | Format: | Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Language: | Japanese | | Subtitle: | English, Spanish, French | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Studio: | Dreamworks Video | | Run Time: | 96 minutes | | DVD Release Date: | March 04, 2003 | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 181 reviews |
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 One of the best horror movies ever! Nov 06, 2009
There has been rumors of a haunted video cassette that supposedly have killed people who watched it within 7 days. Reiko Asakawa (Nanako Matsumima) had a relative that watched the tape and after that the person died within a week, she decides to watch it and now gets the curse. With the help of her ex-husband they both race in time to solve the mystery of the tape and stop the death clock from happening.
Hair-raising and blood-curdling Japanese supernatural thriller is one of the best horror movies ever made. This went on to become one of the most critically acclaimed and most popular foreign horror movies of all time even by fans of the genre, from director Hideo Nakata who did the Ju-On movies later on made a masterpiece that keeps viewers on the edge and keeps them guessing. A suprisingly good remake was made in the US here in 2002 but nothing beats the original not even it's sequels.
This DVD contains the film in Japanese with English Subtitles and the only extras is trailers to this movie.
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 Burns slowly without ever really igniting Oct 10, 2009
RING
[Ringu]
(Japan - 1998)
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Theatrical soundtrack: Dolby Stereo SR
A TV journalist (Nanako Matsushima) joins forces with her ex-husband (Hiroyuki Sanada) to trace the source of a strange videotape which brings death to anyone who watches it...
Hugely successful on its home turf, Hideo Nakata's cult favorite (based on a novel by Kôji Suzuki) ignited a worldwide interest in supernatural horror movies (consolidated a year later by the international success of THE SIXTH SENSE) and spawned a wave of sequels and spin-offs, many of which have since been optioned and/or remade by US studios.
On its own terms, however, RING is a huge disappointment. Things get off to a bad start with the opening teaser, a slow-burning 'scare' scene which builds toward nothing more than a lacklustre freeze-frame, ruining the intended effect, and the subsequent narrative relies too heavily on mood to be truly effective. Nakata generates tension through a gradual accumulation of details, as Matsushima and Sanada follow a series of clues to a remote island where they uncover the identity of a 'character' in the cursed video, whose restless spirit seeks vengeance for a past transgression. The movie closes on a scene of stunning, visceral horror (impressionable viewers are warned that this sequence is PROFOUNDLY frightening), but it's the only highlight of an otherwise mediocre movie. Nakata has since built a career on such material (CHAOS, DARK WATER, etc.).
Followed by RING 2 (1999) and the tangentially-related THE SPIRAL (1998).
Ringu Was Much Better Jul 15, 2009
I watched Ringu first. Then watched The Ring. After about half an hour into The Ring, it was pretty clear it was going to be a trainwreck compared to Ringu.
Ringu had a much more creepy feel to it. It wasn't overdone at all, it left much more to the imagination, and was much more dramatic than The Ring (like, for example, in Ringu, when the protagonist answers the phone, she hears the same sounds heard on the tape, and slams the phone down, while in The Ring, a cliche' voice says, "You have seven days" and then she just puts the phone down; the faces of the victims are scarier in Ringu, partly because they're not clearly overdone makeup). The tape in The Ring was too long and seemed like someone just randomly put together a sequence just for shock value, while in Ringu it was short and sweet, was genuinely creepy, and it looked like something that could have come from beyond the grave. To be really honest, I got kind of bored with the tape in The Ring.
The boy in Ringu also has a much creepier feel about him, the fact that he almost never opens his mouth adds to the creepiness of the whole movie, while in The Ring he seems to be a pretty major character and talks quite a lot, which detracted.
The one nice thing in The Ring was the sequence with the horse running through the ferry, but that had to be spoiled (by the way, there's no way that ever happened, because it's common knowledge not to start instigating a horse in a trailer).
There are two main issues with The Ring: (1) You kind of don't care if the whole cast lives or dies, while in Ringu one was very much routing for the protagonist, her son, and even her ex-husband, and (2) The Ring relies heavily on shock value and drags when there isn't any shock value, while Ringu just creeped under your skin and didn't drive it into the ground.
That Eye... Apr 18, 2009
I am a big fan of THE RING, as I am a Naomi Watts lover. However, RINGU is every bit as good, even better in some ways. I like the compact, less elaborate storyline, with it's stripped-down terror. The finalé is better than the remake, in that Sadako's (Samara) face is never shown, only that accursed eye! I also like the use of psychic abilities and the flashbacks of Sadako and her mum. Do yourself a favor and buy RINGU right now...
 I wish there was a place Mar 12, 2009
I wish there was a place where this movie can't find me. I saw the original Ring and was slightly frightened. Then I saw this and suddenly I'm not scared anymore.
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