Rating: NR
Genre:
Horror
Release Date: 03/04/2003
SubTitles: English/Espanol/French
Dubbed: Japanese
Sound: DD5.1/DD2
Run Time: 96 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations
Distributor/Studio: DreamWorks
In this
psychological horror story from Japan, a legend circulates among teenagers that if one watches a certain video at a certain time of the night, the telephone will ring right afterward, and one week later, you will die. When
Masami (
Hitomi Sato) tells her friend
Imako this story, she scoffs -- but a week later,
Imako dies in an auto accident.
Imako's aunt, a television journalist named
Reiko (
Nanako Matsushima), hears that not long before she died,
Imako was watching a strange video with her friends -- all of whom have turned up dead.
Reiko tracks down a copy of the video, and as she watches its strange, spectral images, the telephone begins to ring....The next morning,
Reiko begins a desperate search to solve the
mystery of the video, convinced she has only seven days to live; assisting her is
Ryuji (
Hiroyuki Sanada), a mathematics expert and her former husband.
Ringu was a box-office success in its native Japan, and a surprise blockbuster in Hong Kong, where it became the biggest grossing film of the first half of 1999.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
;)
