Ring
Director – Hideo Nakata – 1998 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 96m
*****
Spiral (Rasen)
Director – Joji Iida – 1998 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 97m
** 1/2
Ring 2
Director – Hideo Nakata – 1999 – Japan – Cert. 12 – 95m
*****
Ring 0
Director – Norio Tsuruta – 2000 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 99m
***1/2
Ring plays in the BFI Japan 2021 season October / November at BFI Southbank, also currently streaming on BFI Player as part of the BFI Japan 2021 programme. Ring and Ring 2 are on Shudder.
You watch a short, scary video on the VCR. Then your phone rings… you have a week to show it to someone else – or die! Ring (1998) took the world by storm.
A single parent, TV journalist investigates a cursed videotape…
I review Arrow’s Ring Collection for All The Anime.
Ring plays in the BFI Japan 2021 season October / November at BFI Southbank, also currently streaming on BFI Player as part of the BFI Japan 2021 programme. Ring and Ring 2 are on Shudder.
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