5/19/2023 0 Comments Koji suzuki ringu![]() ![]() ![]() The film changes many elements related to gender and sexuality, and panders to its intended male audience, removing many of the more complex psychosexual elements from the novel. Since the film’s release, and the subsequent American re-make, The Ring (2002), little to no scholarly attention has been paid to Suzuki’s original novel and how issues of gender were handled in the process of adaptation from book to screen. In the end, the only way to survive is to copy the tape and pass it along for someone else to watch, thus propagating the curse infinitely. While attempting to find a way to break the spell, Asakawa uncovers the mystery of the woman behind the tape, the now deceased, seemingly unappeasable Sadako Yamamura. The story concerns a reporter named Reiko Asakawa (Nanako Matsushima) who faces a race against the clock to break the curse of a videotape containing a collage of disjointed, disturbing images that kills everyone who watches it in seven days. Chief among the films responsible for the boom was Nakata Hideo’s Ringu (1998), which is based on the 1991 Suzuki Koji novel of the same name. Note: this article contains spoilers for Ringuīeginning in the late 1990s, Japanese Horror Cinema experienced an extremely creative and financially successful period. ![]()
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