Ring 0: Birthday
– Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story..
Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit.
22 Jan 2000
Japanese
Norio Tsuruta
Hiroshi Takahashi (screenplay), Kôji Suzuki (novel)
Yukie Nakama, Seiichi Tanabe, Kumiko Asô, Takeshi Wakamatsu
The prequel to the horror film Ringu, this movie provides the background story of how Sadako later became the vengeful murdering spirit. The story starts with her as a shy, somewhat withdrawn, college student who nonetheless gets involved in a drama club. The director thinks she has talent, but some of the other performers start to get jealous of the attention he gives her. Meanwhile, a reporter investigating Sadako's spiritualist mother thinks there's something very suspicious about the young woman, and arrives on campus to confront Sadako just as a series of strange deaths start sweeping through the drama club.
1 nomination.