Film · 1998

Ring

Name: Ring
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 2000-08-18
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Sara Rue, Yûko Takeuchi, Yutaka Matsushige, Hiroyuki Sanada

Original titleRingu

Directed by Hideo Nakata · starring Sara Rue, Yûko Takeuchi and Yutaka Matsushige

1 h 31 min
18
Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Japan
Released in the UK 17 August 2000

6.7 Users9 votes

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Synopsis

Tomoko and Masami are two teenage girls who are at Tomoko's home watching a movie. Masami tells her friend that she has heard of a strange legend, it is rumored that there is a video tape that after seeing it causes a curse on who has seen it, causing it to die a week later. Tomoko is frightened, she saw a video tape as the one narrated by her friend during a trip to Izu. The terror arrives when Tomoko appears dead in strange circumstances. Her aunt, Reiko, is a journalist and she will investigate what is behind that strange video tape and that hides behind the story of the dark girl who, according to the rumors, appears to kill the one who has dared to see the film. Directed by Hideo Nakata and prize for the best film in the International Festival of Fantastic Cinema of Sitges in 1999.

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The essentials

Runtime: 91 min1 hour and 31 minutes
Rating: 18Suitable only for adults

How long is Ring?: 1 hour and 31 minutes (91 minutes).
When was Ring released in the UK?: It was released in the UK on 17 August 2000.
Who directed Ring?: Hideo Nakata.
Who is in Ring?: It stars Sara Rue, Yûko Takeuchi, Yutaka Matsushige and Hiroyuki Sanada.