num_pages: 288
description: A mysterious videotape warns that the viewer will die in one week unless a certain, unspecified act is performed. Exactly one week after watching the tape, four teenagers die one after another of heart failure.Asakawa, a hardworking journalist, is intrigued by his niece's inexplicable death. His investigation leads him from a metropolitan tokyo teeming with modern society's fears to a rural Japan--a mountain resort, a volcanic island, and a countryside clinic--haunted by the past. His attempt to solve the tape's mystery before it's too late--for everyone--assumes an increasingly deadly urgency. Ring is a chillingly told horror story, a masterfully suspenseful mystery, and post-modern trip.The success of Koji Suzuki's novel the Ring has lead to manga, television and film adaptations in Japan, Korea, and the U.S.
language: English
title: Ring
titlecomplete: Ring (Ring #1)
characters: Sadako Yamamura
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Japan, Paranormal, Japanese Literature, Supernatural, Adult, Horror, Fantasy
ratings_count: 22038
places: Izu Ōshima, Tokyo, Yokosuka, Atami, Hakone, Yokohama
series: リング [Ring]
publisher: Vertical