The Ring

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Running Time: 95 mins. (V)
Additional Notes: dialogue Japanese
Country Of Origin: Japan
synopsis
A strange video begins to circulate among high school teenagers. When you watch the tape, a ghostly figure appears, points her finger at you, and then the phone will ring, signalling your death in one week. When her niece is killed in a car accident, reporter Reiko Asakawa begins an investigation that leads to her own viewing of the tape. Knowing she has only a week left to live, Reiko enlists the aid of her ex-husband in tracking down the origin of the fatal videotape.
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Reiko Asakawa
Mai Takano
Ryuji Takayama
Tomoko Oishi
Masami Kurahashi
Takashi Yamamura
Koichi Asakawa
Yoichi Asakawa--Reiko's Son
Shizuko Yamamura
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from novels
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rating February 25, 2003
The Hollywood remake of the Japanese cult classic Ringu comes to DVD in all its haunting glory. You know the plot: There's this unlabeled videotape. It's cursed. If you watch it, you die in seven days. Hell, you can get the job done quicker by watching Madonna's Swept Away.

What makes The Ring a keeper is the film's deepening mystery, as a Seattle reporter, played by the sexy, compulsively watchable Naomi Watts (Betty from Mulholland Drive), tries to figure out how that tape killed her niece.… Continued