Ringu /
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| Imprint: | Universal City, CA : DreamWorks Home Entertainment, c2003. |
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| Description: | 1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Language: | Japanese |
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| Format: | DVD Video |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5935046 |
| Summary: | 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 friends -- all of whom have turned up dead. Reiko tracks down a copy of the video, and as she watches its strange, spectral images, the telephone begins to ring....The next morning, Reiko begins a desperate search to solve the mystery of the video, convinced she has only seven days to live; assisting her is Ryuji (Hiroyuki Sanada), a mathematics expert and her former husband. Ringu was a box-office success in its native Japan, and a surprise blockbuster in Hong Kong, where it became the biggest grossing film of the first half of 1999. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi A reporter investigates a series of deaths involving a mysterious videotape; rumors have it that whoever views it and does not solve its mystery will die within a week. |
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| Item Description: | Based on the novel "The Ring" by Koji Suzuki. Originally released as motion picture in 1998. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby digital; NTSC. |
| Audience: | Not rated. |
| Production Credits: | Original songs by Hiih ; original score by Kenji Kawai ; edited by Nobuyuki Takahashi ; cinematography by Junichiro Hayashi. |
| ISBN: | 078328604X |
