Thirty years before the events of Ringu, and eleven after anything of interest to audiences will happen, Sadako (Yukie Nakama), the evil ghost of the first film, is a meek, twenty-something-year-old who has joined an acting troop in Tokyo. She’s also followed by the visage of her evil self. People of no importance die, and the
Mai Takano (Nakatani Miki), the assistant/girlfriend of the professor and “ex” in Ringu joins with a journalist colleague of the reporter from Ringu to investigate the strange occurrences around a video tape that kills anyone who watches it seven days later. When Yoichi, the child from Ringu, starts exhibiting strange powers, Mia and a scientist
Hinako, Fumiya, and Sayori were childhood friends. Sayori, the leader, was the daughter and heir to the local priestess, but had big plans that didn’t involve sticking around. But it was Hinako who left for the big city when her father got a job in Tokyo. Years later, Hinako (Natsukawa) returns to find Sayori (Chiaki
OK, this will take some time, so try to follow along. Hashimoto (Yosuke Eguchi) a rogue, crippled scientist (who really doesn’t like the word “cripple”), and his team have created the Menger Sponge out of human protein. This device can do just about everything, including suck in any type of energy, trap ghosts, allow the
Tsukiko is a regular girl with amnesia. She doesn’t worry much about the loss of her memories, but she’s none-to-happy about her bouts of insomnia, so she’s started visiting a laconic hypnotherapist who’s office looks suspiciously like a quickly built and non-dressed set. In a trance, Tsukiko repeats the name “Tomie,” which is the summoning
A small town in Japan is thrown into chaos by spirals. Some people become obsessed with them, watching them until they find a suitable, spiral-related way to commit suicide. Others seek to destroy anything connected to spirals, while still others begin to physically change into spiral shapes. Kirie Goshima (Eriko Hatsune), a girl at the
Two escaped convicts and a group of yakuza with a female prisoner meet in the woods. Bickering results in the death of the leader of the yakuza, but unknown to them, this is the Forest of Resurrection, and the dead man rises as a zombie. Soon, zombies are everywhere and everyone is fighting to survive
Eun-young (Mi-yeon Lee) returns as an instructor to the draconian high school she attended. Her own cruel homeroom teacher was recently murdered by a ghost, and Eun-young sees a connection to the death of her friend many years ago in the school. Four students seem somehow caught up in the horrific events: the nearly catatonic
At a repressive girls school, Min-ah (Min-sun Kim) finds the joint diary of Hyo-shi (Yeh-jin Park) and Shi-eun (Young-jin Lee), two schoolmates who had an affair but now are seldom together. Min-ah becomes obsessed with the book and the two girls’ lives. After Hyo-shi plummets from the roof to her death, Min-ah believes she’s being
