Ring 2

Directed by
Makoto Ishihara
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Ring 2 (also known as The Ring 2) is a 1999 toho horror film,Directed by Hideo Nakata.

## Plot

Keiko Yamamura, a relative of Sadako Yamamura, meets the body of Sadako found by Reiko Asakawa and her ex-husband, Ryuji Takayama, to confirm the identity of Sadako's body. Detective Omuta, who is in charge, told us that the body was only 1.2 years old after death, and that Sadako had been living in the well for 30 years.

Mai Takano, who explores the mystery of the death of her lover, Ryuji Takayama, discovers the existence of a "curse video" and meets TV reporter Okazaki, who is investigating the video. Okazaki took over the job of Reiko Asakawa, who was the predecessor of the "curse video" survey and has now disappeared, but Sawaguchi, a high school student who still has the "video" but has never seen it I searched for Kanae. Okazaki promises to borrow the video from Kanae, but just before that, Kanae loses the temptation and watches the video. Kanae begged Okazaki to watch the video, but Okazaki eventually lost fear and could not watch, and Kanae died a week later.

Okazaki and Mai find out about the existence of a girl, Masami Kurahashi, who is currently in a mental hospital at the death site of Tomoko Oishi, the first victim of the curse video, and her doctor is in sync with Takayama's university・I met Dr. Kawajiri. Kawajiri is doing research on paranormal phenomena, and finds that Sadako Yamamura, who created the video of the curse, possesses possession in Kurahashi. Kawajiri tries to remove Sadako's grudge from Kurahashi according to his theory, but it was a very dangerous experiment that could make the subject abolished.

After that, Mai happens to meet Reiko Asakawa, who hides herself with her son Yoichi, but discovers that Sadako's remorse is already possessed by Yoichi. Eventually, Omuta, who heard about the situation from Kawajiri, secured parent and child in Asakawa, and Kawajiri tried to remove Yoichi, but Yoichi suddenly ran away, activating powerful supernatural powers that could curse Omuta. Furthermore, Reiko, who was affected by the power, was hit by a truck and died.

In a mess, Mai succeeds in bringing Yoichi out to Oshima, Sadako's hometown, seeking clues to save Yoichi. Kawajiri, who followed afterwards, fears that Yoichi is the strongest medium that rages and provokes Sadako's power, and convinces Mai to make a plan to dissolve Sadako's remorse into the pool water with Takashi Yamamura. However, Sadako's power was strong and everyone was sucked into the pool.

Mai emerges eagerly and confirms that Yoichi is beside him. However, at the moment when the two noticed, they tilted 90 degrees and clung to the wall. In other words, it wasn't the pool that was just there, but the well in which Sadako had been trapped for 30 years. Yoichi says to Mai, "Oh, my sister is good" and drops himself to the bottom of the well. Mai falls to the bottom of the well to find Yoichi. At the bottom of the well is the spirit of Ryuji, who helps Mai and Yoichi. However, Sadako's ghost also appears there, and Mai tries to climb up from the well with Yoichi, but Sadako catches up and throws words of blame why Mai is the only one saved. However, Mai and Yoichi safely return to the real world, but Kawajiri and Takashi Yamamura drown in the pool.

This completes the case, but the curse of the video is not over, and while Okazaki is editing an interview tape containing the appearance of Kanae before he was alive, Kanae in the video was unfit for operation of the device. I turn around with a natural movement, and I see it staring at me with a grinning expression between the bangs that cover my face. Later, when Okazaki also became a deceased and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, a nurse took Okazaki's condition with a polaroid, and Kanae appeared in the photograph.

## Cast

* Mai Takano: Miki Nakatani
* Masami Kurahashi: Hitomi Sato
* Kanae Sawaguchi: Kyoko Fukada
* Reiko Asakawa: Nanako Matsushima (special appearance)
* Ryuji Takayama: Hiroyuki Sanada (special appearance)
* Sadako Yamamura: Mebuki Tsuchida (girlhood), Rie Inoo (adulthood)
* Takashi Yamamura: Youichi Numata
* Shizuko Yamamura: Masako
* Kazue Yamamura: Miwako Kaji
* Heihachiro Ikuma: Daisuke Ban
* Koichi Asakawa: Katsumi Muramatsu
* Yoichi Asakawa: Rikiya Otaka
* Detective Kakukura: Taro Suwa
* Ukai: Ryoko Nagasokabe
* Sakuma: Reita Serizawa
* Hayashi Nurse: Yoshiko Yura
* Elderly Man: Nishito Tamura
* Engineer: Shiro Namiki
* Assistant: Takashi Nishina
* Taxi driver: Yatsu Isao
* Detective Omuta: Kenjiro Ishimaru
* Okazaki: Yurei Yanagi
* Dr. Kawajiri: Fumyo Kohinata

## Staff

* Director: Hideo Nakata
* Producer: Masato Hara / Takashige Ichinose / Makoto Ishihara
* Original: Koji Suzuki
* Writer: Hiroshi Takahashi
* Photo: Hideo Yamamoto
* Music: Kenji Kawai
* Theme song: "Smile like ice" (Song: Miki Imai )

## Release

Ring 2 was released in Japan on January 23, 1999 where it was distributed by Toho. It was released on a double bill with the film Shikoku. The film was released directly to video in the United States on August 23, 2005 by DreamWorks.

## Titles

* The Ring (Argentina video title)
* The Ring: Krag 2 (Poland title)

## Extra information

Published in January 1999. A sequel to the original story that depicts the parallel world development of "Spiral." As with this work, Hideo Nakata was the director and Hiroshi Takahashi was the script. Mai Takano and Yoichi Asakawa, who died at the expense of Sadako's curse in the "helix", survived in this work and appeared as the main characters, as well as Masami Kurahashi and Okazaki, who are the characters unique to the movie version "Ring", Kei Yamamura and others who had different activities from the original will also appear again. Sadako Yamamura in adulthood was played by Rie Inoo, as in the movie “Ring”.

The sequel to "Ring" as a "Moshimo" produced by the blockbuster of the movie version "Ring" and its sequel "Helix". The third film, " Loop, " which is the final version of the regular series, which was supposed to be made into a movie if it went smoothly, is difficult to visualize  , and the content largely deviates from the modern horror like the previous two. That is, the scale itself is large and it requires a larger budget than the previous two produced with a low budget, and there are also schedule problems, so in the end, the first movie version ``Ring After that, if the story followed another development that was not "helix," the parallel world idea was to produce another ringing story instead of the story after "helix." Became.

Ring was originally a novel written by Koji Suzuki; its sequel, Rasen (a.k.a. Spiral), was also adapted into a film as the sequel to Ring. However, due to the poor response to Rasen, Ring 2 was made as a new sequel to Ring, not based on Suzuki's works, and thus ultimately ignores the story of Rasen.

Ring 2 takes place a couple of weeks after the first film, directly continuing the story and features most of the cast from Ring reprising their roles.

## Series

*Main article:* The Ring (Film Series)

the ring 2 is the second film in the series after the *poor response to* *The* *Spiral**,* Ring 2 was made as a new sequel to Ring, not based on Suzuki's works, and thus ultimately ignores the story of Spiral.