Sadako Yamamura
The characters of Sadako Yamamura and Samara Morgan have been well received by audiences and film critics alike. "The Movie Book" describes Sadako as influencing the whole Japanese horror genre, making the mythological image of the yurei popular in film. British film critic Mark Kermode lists Sadako's iconic crawl out of a television set as his seventh scariest moment from the horror film genre. The scene also came sixth in Channel 4's "100 Greatest Scary Moments". On August 10, 2002, Sadako was given a public funeral at the Laforet Museum in Harajuku, Tokyo, to tie-in with the opening of a "Ring" exhibit at the museum and the release of "The Ring", with Koji Suzuki attending the funeral. "Empire"'s Mark Dinning described Samara as one of the film industry's most "unrelenting, unreasonable, plain uncontrollable baddies ever." Daveigh Chase has been praised for her performance as Samara Morgan, and won the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain at the 2003 ceremony.