Catching up on Arrow
My collecting obsession leads me to Arrow’s Ring Collection — Hideo Nakata’s hugely influential Ringu (1998), two divergent sequels, George Iida’s Spiral (1998) and Nakata’s own Ring 2 (1999), plus the prequel Ring […]
Review: Ring 2 (1999)
Director: Hideo Nakata
Cast: Miki Nakatani, Hitomi Satô, Kyoko Fukada, Fumiyo Kohinata, Kenjiro Ishimaru,
Miki Nakatani
Hitomi Satô
Kyoko Fukada
Fumiyo Kohinata
Kenjiro Ishimaru
Plot: While investigating the horrifying death of her boyfriend, Mai Takano learns about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a disturbing girl named Sadako, which kills anyone who watches it exactly one week later. When her boyfriend’s son, Yoichi, starts to develop the same psychic abilities as Sadako, Takano must find a way to keep the boy and herself from becoming the next victims.
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