Ring (リング, Ringu) is a series of horror novels written by Koji Suzuki.
The novels revolve around a curse, embodied within a videotape, unleashed by Sadako Yamamura, the ghost of a psychic who was raped and murdered before being thrown into a well.
The success of the novels led to the release of numerous film adaptations in Japan, South Korea, and the United States.
When four teenagers mysteriously die one night at the same time, Kazuyuki Asakawa, a journalist and uncle to one of the teens, takes a particular interest in the case and investigates.
This leads him to a holiday resort called Hakone Pacific Island, where the four teens stayed one week before their death.
At the bottom lie Sadako's remains; Kazuyuki sets her free by giving her a proper burial.
When Kazuyuki realizes that the charm was to copy the tape and show it to somebody else, he rushes to his family to save them.
He and his colleague, Miyashita, found a benign tumor in Ryuji's throat which is believed to be the cause of his death.
Ando, along with his colleague, Miyashita, find out that an organism called the Ring Virus causes this tumor.
The virus is transferred to the body through the tape and begins to grow into a tumor inside the viewer's throat.
In search for the cryptic messages meaning, he comes to meet Ryuji's assistant, Mai Takano.
Kaoru continues his investigations, which lead him to a man (and the last surviving person involved in the LOOP) named Amano.
Amano reveals that LOOP was a project involving 100 supercomputers strung together and aiming to recreate life.
After some discussion with Amano, he knows that the LOOP's creator wanted to recreate Ryuji's death and in so doing could clone him and insert him into someone's womb.
He creates a vaccine for the Ring virus which he gives to Ando, re-enacting the epilogue of Spiral.
Floating Coffin – these are the final moments of Mai Takano's life after disappearing during the events of Spiral.
It depicts the last events taking place in the Ring universe chronologically and is also the conclusion of the series.
Reiko is questioning the worth of giving birth to a child if the only world he'll arrive in is full of death.
Following on the story told in the series of novels that began with the runaway bestseller Ring, this work starts with 28-year-old image processing specialist Takanori Ando being handed a USB memory stick by the president of the CG production company where he works.
Tasked with analyzing its contents, Ando gasps at the graphic images he sees, and quickly concludes that they cannot have been faked or generated by CG software.
When he plays it again the next day, the man's body has shifted to a lower position, and in subsequent viewings, the video undergoes further changes.
After examining the video more closely, Ando manages to identify the apartment building where he believes it was filmed.
The man who holds the key to the story is philosophy instructor Ryuji Takayama, who appeared in previous volumes of the series.
Akane is in fact Takayama's child by a woman who carries Sadako's DNA, and the man who kills himself in the suicide video is a way of informing Ando about the intervening events.
[1] Cram-school math instructor Seiji Kashiwada is a creation of the supercomputer LOOP, and the biological information implanted in him reflects the lives of Ryuji Takayama, who appeared in both Ring and Loop, and Kaoru Futami, who appeared in the latter volume; but due to a system error, portions of his memory have become lost.
One day, student Rie Yoshina comes to him for advice regarding her friend Haruna Tajima, who inexplicably fell into a coma after seeing a female dogu figurine of the Jomon Period (ca.
It is a baffling story, but as he listens to Rie's account, Seiji senses intuitively that it is a message directed at him.
The 2013 season 5 episode of Castle, "Scared to Death", contains a haunted DVD so scary that it kills people three days after they watch it.