Ringu

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NR,1hr 35min

Genres:

Horror,Drama

Release:

1998

Distributor:

Tartan Video

Starring:

Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, Miki Nakatani ... More

Synopsis: In this psychological horror story from Japan, a legend circulates among teenagers that if one watches a certain video at a certain time of the night, the telephone will ring right afterward, and one week later, you will die. When Masami (Hitomi Sato) tells her friend Imako this story, she scoffs -- but a week later, Imako dies in an auto accident. Imako's aunt, a television journalist named Reiko (Nanako Matsushima), hears that not long before she died, Imako was watching a strange video with her ... Full Synopsis

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	Jason Buchanan, AMG Review This intensely creepy psychological thriller from Japan was no less than a cultural phenomenon in its native country when released in 1996. Though Ringu spawned a dizzying onslaught of product overkill comparable to the American Nightmare on Elm Street craze of the mid-'80s -- including sequels, a television series, and merchandise -- it owes its debt more stylistically and thematically to The X-Files, ... Read Review