Movie
1998
Ring is a 1998 Japanese supernatural psychological horror film directed by Hideo Nakata and written by Hiroshi Takahashi, based on the 1991 novel by Koji Suzuki. The film stars Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, and Hiroyuki Sanada, and follows a reporter who is racing to investigate the mystery behind a cursed video tape; whoever watches the tape dies seven days after doing so. The film is also titled The Ring in…
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One of the more interesting pop culture trends at the turn of the millennia was the global popularity of what Western critics later dubbed "J-horror"—a specifically Japanese brand of supernatural horror genre inspired by traditional Japanese tales of ghosts and ancient curses. This trend resulted first in huge commercial successes of Japanese films on Eastern cinema and their popularity among sections of global horr…More
