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The Ring (franchise)
''Ring'' ( ja, リング, Ringu), also known as ''The Ring'', is a Japanese horror media franchise, based on the novel series of the same name written by Koji Suzuki. The franchise includes eight Japanese films, two television series, six manga adaptations, three English-language film remakes, a Korean film remake, and two video games '' The Ring: Terror's Realm'' and '' Ring: Infinity''. The ''Ring'' films revolve around a cursed video tape; whoever watches the tape dies seven days later, unless the tape is copied and shown to another person, who then must repeat the same process. The video tape was created by a psychic, Sadako Yamamura, who was murdered by her adoptive father and thrown into a well. After her supposed death, she returned as a ghostly serial killer, killing anyone who fails to copy and then send the video tape to someone else under a seven-day deadline (constricted to a two-day deadline in ''Sadako vs. Kayako'' and a one-day deadline in ''Sadako DX''). Japa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koji Suzuki
is a Japanese writer, who was born in Hamamatsu and lives in Tokyo. Suzuki is the author of the Ring (novel series), ''Ring'' novels, which have been adapted into other formats, including films, manga, TV series and video games. He has written several books on the subject of fatherhood. His hobbies include traveling and motorcycling. Bibliography Some of the books listed here are published in the US by Vertical (company), Vertical Inc., owned by Kodansha and Dai Nippon Printing. ''Ring'' series * The Ring (franchise), ''Ring'' trilogy and extended series ** ''Ring (Suzuki novel), Ring'' (''Ringu'') (1991) ** ''Spiral (Suzuki novel), Spiral'' (''Rasen'') (1995) ** ''Loop (novel), Loop'' (''Rupu'') (1998) ** ''Birthday (short story collection), Birthday'' (1999) (Short story collection) [tightly intertwined with the trilogy: almost crucially relevant] *** "Coffin in the Sky" [details what happened to Mai Takano in ''Spiral''] *** "Lemon Heart" [prequel to ''Ring''] *** "Happy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadako 3D
is a 2012 supernatural horror film directed by Tsutomu Hanabusa, loosely based on the novel '' S'' by Koji Suzuki. Plot A mysterious, white-clad man drops a long-haired woman into a well. The well is full of women, all with long hair, all dressed in night-dresses. Thirteen years after the original film, two suicides prompt Detective Koiso and his partner to investigate a string of mysterious deaths. The deaths involve video played on devices; just before the deaths, a voice says, "You're not the one". While Koiso is unconvinced, his partner deduces that the deaths are the result of a cursed video that online artist Seiji Kashiwada created. Akane Ayukawa, teacher of a schoolgirl who died, discovers the schoolgirl's best friend Risa had been looking into the cursed video. The video had been deleted, but the Error 404 message in its wake prompts the video to play when the viewer is alone. In it, Kashiwada allows himself to be killed by a long-haired woman. When the video ends, Ris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ring (novel Series)
is a series of horror novels written by Koji Suzuki. The novels were initially a trilogy, consisting of ''Ring'', ''Spiral'', and ''Loop''. A short story collection called ''Birthday'' was released shortly after, introducing extra stories interconnecting the trilogy. Two further books, ''S'' and ''Tide'', were published in 2012 and 2013, respectively. The novels revolve around a curse, embodied within a videotape, unleashed by Sadako Yamamura, the ghost of a psychic who was raped and murdered before being thrown into a well. Though the curse was initially presented as a supernatural force, it is eventually revealed to be a cataclysmic virus which Sadako utilizes for her own misanthropic ends. The success of the novels led to the release of numerous film adaptations in Japan, South Korea, and the United States. Books ''Ring'' (1991) This story is set in present-day Tokyo. When four teenagers mysteriously die one night at the same time, Kazuyuki Asakawa, a journalist and uncl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Media Franchise
A media franchise, also known as a multimedia franchise, is a collection of related media in which several derivative works have been produced from an original creative work of fiction, such as a film, a work of literature, a television program or a video game. Bob Iger, chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, defined the word ''franchise'' as “something that creates value across multiple businesses and across multiple territories over a long period of time.” Transmedia franchise A media franchise often consists of cross-marketing across more than one medium. For the owners, the goal of increasing profit through diversity can extend the commercial profitability of the franchise and create strong feelings of identity and ownership in its consumers. Those large groups of dedicated consumers create the franchise's fandom, which is the community of fans that indulge in many of its mediums and are committed to interacting with and keeping up with other consumers. Large franch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Horror
Japanese horror is horror fiction derived from popular culture in Japan, generally noted for its unique thematic and conventional treatment of the horror genre differing from the traditional Western representation of horror. Japanese horror tends to focus on psychological horror, tension building ( suspense), and supernatural horror, particularly involving ghosts (''yūrei'') and poltergeists. Other Japanese horror fiction contains themes of folk religion such as possession, exorcism, shamanism, precognition, and ''yōkai''. Forms of Japanese horror fiction include artwork, theater, literature, film, anime and video games. Origins The origins of Japanese horror can be traced back to the horror fiction and ghost stories of the Edo period and the Meiji period, which were known as ''kaidan'' (sometimes transliterated ''kwaidan''; literally meaning "strange story"). Elements of these popular folktales have routinely been used in various forms of Japanese horror, especially the tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Infinity
Infinity is that which is boundless, endless, or larger than any number. It is often denoted by the infinity symbol . Since the time of the ancient Greeks, the philosophical nature of infinity was the subject of many discussions among philosophers. In the 17th century, with the introduction of the infinity symbol and the infinitesimal calculus, mathematicians began to work with infinite series and what some mathematicians (including l'Hôpital and Bernoulli) regarded as infinitely small quantities, but infinity continued to be associated with endless processes. As mathematicians struggled with the foundation of calculus, it remained unclear whether infinity could be considered as a number or magnitude and, if so, how this could be done. At the end of the 19th century, Georg Cantor enlarged the mathematical study of infinity by studying infinite sets and infinite numbers, showing that they can be of various sizes. For example, if a line is viewed as the set of all of its poin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terror's Realm
''The Ring: Terror's Realm'' (known simply as in Japan) is a survival horror video game developed and published by Asmik Ace Entertainment in Japan and published by Infogrames North America in North America. It was released for Dreamcast on February 24, 2000 in Japan and September 29 in North America (it was originally set for a June 28 release date, but was delayed for unknown reasons). It is based on the ''Ring'' series of novels by Japanese author Suzuki Kouji, which also inspired the Japanese film ''Ring'' (1998) and its American remake, '' The Ring'' (2002). Plot Meg Rainman is a newly-hired researcher at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the United States. Her boyfriend Robert is among four workers at the CDC who have died mysteriously on the same day, and the only thing that connects them is a program found in their computers, called "RING". When the CDC is put under lockdown, Meg finds herself imprisoned in the center with her co-workers, and inside the CDC Meg mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rasen (TV Series)
is the sequel to the TV drama '' Ring: The Final Chapter'', based on the novel ''Spiral'' by Koji Suzuki is a Japanese writer, who was born in Hamamatsu and lives in Tokyo. Suzuki is the author of the ''Ring'' novels, which have been adapted into other formats, including films, manga, TV series and video games. He has written several books on th .... Much like '' Ring: The Final Chapter'', it does not adapt much of the original source material. There are a total of 13 episodes in the series. List of episodes #"Sadako's Revenge: A Horror Greater Than ''The Ring''" #"The Dead Watch the Well" #"I Come to Kill Myself..." #"A Dead Person is Resurrected to a Legendary Village" #"The Devil Was in This Room" #"Nobody Can Stop Me Any Longer" #"The Man Who Made Sadako" #"The Child Who Died Twice..." #"The Ring of Hatred is Complete" #"The Prisoner is Murdered by a Prison Guard" #"The Fortuneteller is Murdered" #"The World Will Fall to Ruins Tomorrow" #"The Immortal" References Ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Final Chapter
The Final Chapter may refer to: * ''The Final Chapter'' (Hypocrisy album), 1997 * ''The Final Chapter'' (C-Bo album) * ''The Final Chapter'' (Ruff Endz album) * ''The Final Chapter'' (Dungeon album) *''All Areas – Worldwide'', a 1997 live album by Accept, released as ''The Final Chapter'' in Japan and the United States *''Urusei Yatsura: The Final Chapter'', the fifth movie of ''Urusei Yatsura'' *"The Gathering of Five and The Final Chapter", a Spider-Man story-line *'' Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter'', the fourth ''Friday the 13th'' film, released in 1984 *'' Puppet Master 5: The Final Chapter'', the fifth ''Puppet Master'' film, released in 1994 *'' Lake Placid: The Final Chapter'', the fourth ''Lake Placid'' film, released in 2012 *'' Duets: The Final Chapter'', third posthumous album by The Notorious B.I.G., released in 2005 *''The Final Chapter'', a 1988 anime film based on the ''Maison Ikkoku is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rings (2005 Film)
''Rings'' (stylized as ''rings'') is a 2005 American horror short film. It was initially released as an extra disc with a re-release of '' The Ring'' on DVD. The events in ''Rings'' lead up to the sequel ''The Ring Two'', on whose DVD ''Rings'' is also included as a bonus feature. Plot Some time after the events of '' The Ring'', Samara Morgan's videotape has spread, as each person who sees the video makes a copy and shows it to someone else. A subculture has grown surrounding the video: people wait to see how close to the seven-day deadline they can get. When they grow too afraid to go on any longer, they show the tape to the next assigned person. During the interval, some create videos documenting their experiences to be posted to websites devoted to the videotape phenomenon. Groups that have watched the video are called "rings". The film is focused on Jake Pierce, the latest member of one such ring. The ring has also recruited its next member, Tim who will watch the tape when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadako DX
''Sadako DX'' ( ja, 貞子 DX) is a 2022 Japanese supernatural slasher comedy film directed by Hisashi Kimura. It is an installment in the ''Ring'' franchise, and stars Fuka Koshiba as a quick-witted high school student who has to unravel the cursed videotape after finding out her sister has seen it, discovering that the curse now claims the victim's life only twenty four hours after viewing it. ''Sadako DX'' also stars Kazuma Kawamura and Mario Kuroba. ''Sadako DX'' premiered at the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival. It was released in Japan on 28 October the same year. Synopsis ''Sadako DX'' follows Ayaka Ichijo (Fuka Koshiba), a graduate high school student who is skeptical about the video tape and the legend surrounding it, which have become a viral sensation. She soon learns that her sister Futaba (Yuki Yagi) has viewed a copy of the tape, and discovers that Futaba's death is set to occur not in seven days, but 24 hours, leading her to unravel the curse of Sadako ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadako (film)
''Sadako'' ( ja, 貞子) is a 2019 Japanese supernatural horror film directed by Hideo Nakata. Loosely based on the novel ''Tide'' by Koji Suzuki, the film is an installment in the ''Ring'' franchise, and a sequel to Nakata's 1999 film ''Ring 2''. The series centers around a vengeful ghost named Sadako Yamamura who is associated with a cursed video tape; whomever watches the tape is killed seven days later. ''Sadako'' premiered in Japan on 24 May 2019, and it played on the opening night of the Fantasia International Film Festival. A tie-in manga series, ''Sadako-san and Sadako-chan'', was published in February before the film's release. Plot Believing her daughter to be Sadako's reincarnation, psychic Hatsuko Sofue prepares to set fire to the padlocked closet where her daughter is confined. Sadako's ghost breaks free from a rock pile concealing a cave on Oshima Island and appears inside Hatsuko's apartment. The little girl suddenly appears outside the closet with Sadako, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
