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A young woman is in her kitchen. She opens the fridge door. She is disturbed by the sound of static.
She walks into the living room where we can see through frosted glass that a television set is on.
She looks at the screen.
Dark, spooky music plays.
A caption reads: From Hideo Nakata
Reiko, a journalist, walks down a wooded path to a large house.
There's this 'video curse' everyone's talking about...
A caption reads: Director of Dark Water
Reiko looks at the side of a videotape and becomes very scared.
They saw the video...
The young woman crouches down and gets closer to the television screen.
When it was over, they got a phone call...
A student sits by a table with a notepad in front of her. She is pointing to somebody.
""You will die in one week"", she said.
Reiko has a tear in her eye as she hears the phone ring.
The young woman walks back to the kitchen in a hurry as a phone rings.
The music comes to a crescendo.
A caption reads: Comes a haunting new restoration
A woman in a red hoodie picks up the phone.
The screen goes black.
We see a quick succession of grainy VHS images showing Japanese script, an eye, a figure in white and other contorted images. It ends with somebody gripping somebody's wrist with their hand.
The screen goes black again.
Reiko is leaning forward.
Cause of death?
We pan around Ryuji, a man in his late 30s with a goatee beard.
Unknown. Their hearts just stopped.
A photograph of a teenage boy and girl. Their faces are heavily distorted as if smudged.
Reiko also looks at a photo.
We see it is a Polaroid of her, again with her face distorted out of shape.
A small boy stands at the foot of some stairs.
He walks down a hallway and stops.
People don't just die like that.
Reiko stands in another hallway across from the boy.
A male figure stands in a corridor. We see him for only a brief moment.
A group of schoolgirls are talking.
They all died the same day...
Somebody peels back covers to reveal a body lying in a box.
Reiko is with a male colleague looking at a television.
I've never seen a corpse that looked like that.
On the screen, a girl's face is upside down and is stuck in an open mouthed expression.
Reiko looks in fear at her own reflection in the screen.
A caption reads: ""Still feels as twisted, bizarre and down-right nightmarish as it did all those years ago"" David Jenkins, Time Out
A woman's arms and hands are tied together with dark hair. Suddenly a hand appears from beneath them and grabs the wrists.
Reiko is on the beach with Ryuji. She slowly faints and he tries to stop her. There is a person lying on the ground in front of them.
Ryuji grimaces as he holds on to a piece of cord.
A wet hand reaches out.
A man uses an axe to cut through a fence.
A man looks into a well then the contrast changes to bright white.
A caption reads: Five Stars. A powerful exercise in atmosphere."" Andrew Heskins, Easternkicks.
Sepia footage of a man throwing a figure in white down a well.
Bloody fingers claw their way across a floor.
Reiko looks scared.
Sepia footage of a suited man lying on the floor dead.
A caption reads: Four stars. The original and best. Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian.
A VHS flickers showing the figure in white with long dark hair.
Creepy music gets faster.
Ryuji looks distressed.
Reiko cries.
A figure in white crawls along the floor. Quick cuts show it rises to its feet
A caption reads: See it and die - of fright"". Mark Kermode.
A man screams.
Reiko covers the face of a young boy.
The young woman from the beginning turns around and looks in shock.
We see a white eye peering behind long, black hair.
A caption reads: Ring
VHS static image and sound.
The figure climbs out of the well.
Arrow Video
In 1998, director Hideo Nakata (Dark Water) unleashed a chilling tale of technological terror on unsuspecting audiences, which redefined the horror genre, launched the J-horror boom in the West and introduced a generation of moviegoers to a creepy, dark-haired girl called Sadako. The film's success spawned a slew of remakes, reimaginations and imitators, but none could quite boast the power of Nakata's original masterpiece, which melded traditional Japanese folklore with contemporary anxieties about the spread of technology. A group of teenage friends are found dead, their bodies grotesquely contorted, their faces twisted in terror.
Reiko (Nanako Matsushima, When Marnie Was There), a journalist and the aunt of one of the victims, sets out to investigate the shocking phenomenon, and in the process uncovers a creepy urban legend about a supposedly cursed videotape, the contents of which causes anyone who views it to die within a week - unless they can persuade someone else to watch it, and, in so doing, pass on the curse... Arrow Video is proud to present Ringu, the film that started it all, restored from the original negative in glorious high definition and supplemented by a wealth of archival and newly created bonus materials.
Special Features
- Brand new 4K restoration from the original camera negative, approved by director of photography Junichiro Hayashi
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
- Lossless Japanese DTS-HD master audio 5.1 and PCM 2.0 soundtracks
- Optional English subtitles
- New audio commentary by film historian David Kalat
- The Ringu Legacy, a series of new interviews from critics and filmmakers on their memories of the Ringu series and its enduring legacy
- A Vicious Circle, a new video interview with author and critic Kat Ellinger on the career of Hideo Nakata
- Circumnavigating Ringu, a new video essay by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on the evolution of the Ringu series
- Sadako's Video
- Theatrical trailers
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork
- Arrow Video
- 96mins approx
- Hideo Nakata
- Nanako Matsushima
- Miki Nakatani
- Yûko Takeuchi
- 1998
- 1
- A
- Arrow Video
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Arrow Video logo fades in and out.
A young woman is in her kitchen. She opens the fridge door. She is disturbed by the sound of static.
She walks into the living room where we can see through frosted glass that a television set is on.
She looks at the screen.
Dark, spooky music plays.
A caption reads: From Hideo Nakata
Reiko, a journalist, walks down a wooded path to a large house.
There's this 'video curse' everyone's talking about...
A caption reads: Director of Dark Water
Reiko looks at the side of a videotape and becomes very scared.
They saw the video...
The young woman crouches down and gets closer to the television screen.
When it was over, they got a phone call...
A student sits by a table with a notepad in front of her. She is pointing to somebody.
""You will die in one week"", she said.
Reiko has a tear in her eye as she hears the phone ring.
The young woman walks back to the kitchen in a hurry as a phone rings.
The music comes to a crescendo.
A caption reads: Comes a haunting new restoration
A woman in a red hoodie picks up the phone.
The screen goes black.
We see a quick succession of grainy VHS images showing Japanese script, an eye, a figure in white and other contorted images. It ends with somebody gripping somebody's wrist with their hand.
The screen goes black again.
Reiko is leaning forward.
Cause of death?
We pan around Ryuji, a man in his late 30s with a goatee beard.
Unknown. Their hearts just stopped.
A photograph of a teenage boy and girl. Their faces are heavily distorted as if smudged.
Reiko also looks at a photo.
We see it is a Polaroid of her, again with her face distorted out of shape.
A small boy stands at the foot of some stairs.
He walks down a hallway and stops.
People don't just die like that.
Reiko stands in another hallway across from the boy.
A male figure stands in a corridor. We see him for only a brief moment.
A group of schoolgirls are talking.
They all died the same day...
Somebody peels back covers to reveal a body lying in a box.
Reiko is with a male colleague looking at a television.
I've never seen a corpse that looked like that.
On the screen, a girl's face is upside down and is stuck in an open mouthed expression.
Reiko looks in fear at her own reflection in the screen.
A caption reads: ""Still feels as twisted, bizarre and down-right nightmarish as it did all those years ago"" David Jenkins, Time Out
A woman's arms and hands are tied together with dark hair. Suddenly a hand appears from beneath them and grabs the wrists.
Reiko is on the beach with Ryuji. She slowly faints and he tries to stop her. There is a person lying on the ground in front of them.
Ryuji grimaces as he holds on to a piece of cord.
A wet hand reaches out.
A man uses an axe to cut through a fence.
A man looks into a well then the contrast changes to bright white.
A caption reads: Five Stars. A powerful exercise in atmosphere."" Andrew Heskins, Easternkicks.
Sepia footage of a man throwing a figure in white down a well.
Bloody fingers claw their way across a floor.
Reiko looks scared.
Sepia footage of a suited man lying on the floor dead.
A caption reads: Four stars. The original and best. Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian.
A VHS flickers showing the figure in white with long dark hair.
Creepy music gets faster.
Ryuji looks distressed.
Reiko cries.
A figure in white crawls along the floor. Quick cuts show it rises to its feet
A caption reads: See it and die - of fright"". Mark Kermode.
A man screams.
Reiko covers the face of a young boy.
The young woman from the beginning turns around and looks in shock.
We see a white eye peering behind long, black hair.
A caption reads: Ring
VHS static image and sound.
The figure climbs out of the well.
Arrow Video
In 1998, director Hideo Nakata (Dark Water) unleashed a chilling tale of technological terror on unsuspecting audiences, which redefined the horror genre, launched the J-horror boom in the West and introduced a generation of moviegoers to a creepy, dark-haired girl called Sadako. The film's success spawned a slew of remakes, reimaginations and imitators, but none could quite boast the power of Nakata's original masterpiece, which melded traditional Japanese folklore with contemporary anxieties about the spread of technology. A group of teenage friends are found dead, their bodies grotesquely contorted, their faces twisted in terror.
Reiko (Nanako Matsushima, When Marnie Was There), a journalist and the aunt of one of the victims, sets out to investigate the shocking phenomenon, and in the process uncovers a creepy urban legend about a supposedly cursed videotape, the contents of which causes anyone who views it to die within a week - unless they can persuade someone else to watch it, and, in so doing, pass on the curse... Arrow Video is proud to present Ringu, the film that started it all, restored from the original negative in glorious high definition and supplemented by a wealth of archival and newly created bonus materials.
Special Features
- Brand new 4K restoration from the original camera negative, approved by director of photography Junichiro Hayashi
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
- Lossless Japanese DTS-HD master audio 5.1 and PCM 2.0 soundtracks
- Optional English subtitles
- New audio commentary by film historian David Kalat
- The Ringu Legacy, a series of new interviews from critics and filmmakers on their memories of the Ringu series and its enduring legacy
- A Vicious Circle, a new video interview with author and critic Kat Ellinger on the career of Hideo Nakata
- Circumnavigating Ringu, a new video essay by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on the evolution of the Ringu series
- Sadako's Video
- Theatrical trailers
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork
- Arrow Video
- 96mins approx
- Hideo Nakata
- Nanako Matsushima
- Miki Nakatani
- Yûko Takeuchi
- 1998
- 1
- A
- Arrow Video
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Ringu
I saw the Ring remake back when it came out and I just now got around to watching this original one. It was pretty good. Almost identical to the US remake.
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