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Rasen Kairō
Rasen may refer to: * ''Rasen'' (novel) or ''Spiral'', a 1995 Japanese novel by Koji Suzuki * ''Rasen'' (film) or ''Spiral'', a 1998 Japanese film based on the novel * ''Rasen'' (TV series), a 1999 Japanese TV drama based on the novel {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rasen (novel)
is a 1995 Japanese novel, a part of author Koji Suzuki's Ring (novel series), ''Ring'' series. It is the second in the ''Ring (novel series), Ring series'', and Spiral (1998 film), a film based on the book was released in 1998. The English translation of the book was published by Vertical Press in the United States and by HarperCollins in Britain. Two direct film adaptations of the novel have been produced: the 1998 Japanese film ''Spiral (1998 film), Spiral'', and the 2017 American film ''Rings (2017 film), Rings'', as well as a 1999 Japanese television series ''Rasen (TV series), Rasen''. Plot Ando Mitsuo, a coroner still struggling with his son's death, is assigned to do the autopsy of his old classmate Ryūji Takayama. He and his colleague, Miyashita, find a tumor in Ryūji's heart, believed to be the cause of his death. Puzzled as the tumor appears similar to smallpox (which was eradicated in 1979), Ando completes the autopsy and, upon finding a newspaper poking through a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rasen (film)
is a 1998 Japanese supernatural horror film and a sequel to ''Ring'' (1998). It is directed by Jōji Iida and is based on the novel of the same title by Koji Suzuki. It is titled ''The Spiral'' (stylized as ''the Spiral'') in English on the Japanese poster and video packaging, and it was previously released in North America as ''Rasen'' (a transliteration of the Japanese title) and in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Philippines as ''The Spiral''. ''Ring'' and its sequel ''Spiral'' were released in Japan at the same time. The studio hoped this would increase revenues, because the ''Ring'' story was already a successful novel and television film. The two films shared a few cast members and had the same production team, but different directors and screenwriters; ''Spiral'' was written and directed by Jōji Iida whereas ''Ring'' was written by Hiroshi Takahashi and directed by Hideo Nakata. After their release, ''Ring'' became an enormous success while ''Spiral'' floundered, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |