Aka: Virus Ring / 링(링 바이러스)
Director: Kim Dong-bin
Release date: 1999
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Suspense
Starring:
Shin Eun-Kyung as Sun-ju
Jeong Jin-yeong as Choi Yeol
Bae Du-na as Eun-suh
Synopsis:
After the mysterious death of her niece and other three teenagers on the same hour and with the symptoms of heart attack, the journalist Sun-ju decides to investigate their last moments. She discloses that the four friends had just watched a videotape exactly one week before their death in a resort. She travels to the place and finds the deadly video and after watching the weird footage, her telephone rings.
When she takes a picture of herself, she sees her image blurred the same way that happened with the teenagers. She makes a copy of the cursed tape to her acquaintance, the skeptical coroner Choi Yeol. Together they seek for a hint, and find that it was taped thorough telekinesis by Eun-suh, a psychic girl that had disappeared years ago. When Sun-ju's little daughter watches the movie, Sun-ju has a stronger reason to unravel the mystery to save her daughter and her own lives.
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When she takes a picture of herself, she sees her image blurred the same way that happened with the teenagers. She makes a copy of the cursed tape to her acquaintance, the skeptical coroner Choi Yeol. Together they seek for a hint, and find that it was taped thorough telekinesis by Eun-suh, a psychic girl that had disappeared years ago. When Sun-ju's little daughter watches the movie, Sun-ju has a stronger reason to unravel the mystery to save her daughter and her own lives.
(Credit: Imdb)
Review:
I have seen this movie after watching Ringu, a few years ago, and I have to say that the plot is not very different from the original Ringu but the truth is this movie actually shows us a side of Sadako (eun-suh in this version) that we didn't know and actually shows us how the mysterious tape was made. And of course, this movie has more elements from the original book. A must watch for Ringu fans.
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Curiosities:
This movie is the korean remake of the japanese movie Ringu.
Differences between the movie and the book:
As opposed to the Japanese adaptation Ringu, this movie follows more closely Koji Suzuki's storyline, while keeping some elements first introduced with Ringu.
The main character from the novel is a man called Kazuyuki Asakawa, while in the film, the main character is a woman called Sun-Joo Hong.
The villain from the novel is named Sadako Yamamura, while in the movie, she is called Park Eun-Suh.
Ryuji in the novel is a philosophy professor that also achieved medical studies, whereas in the movie, Choi is a doctor who made a mystical pronouncement at the scene of one the deaths about supernatural forces having been at work.
Even though the film kills its supporting character the same way Ringu did, the movie shares the book views on a pseudo-science-fictitious medical-mystery approach with its title and Choi's scientific research on viruses and the conclusions he makes before his death.
(Credit: Wikipedia)The main character from the novel is a man called Kazuyuki Asakawa, while in the film, the main character is a woman called Sun-Joo Hong.
The villain from the novel is named Sadako Yamamura, while in the movie, she is called Park Eun-Suh.
Ryuji in the novel is a philosophy professor that also achieved medical studies, whereas in the movie, Choi is a doctor who made a mystical pronouncement at the scene of one the deaths about supernatural forces having been at work.
Even though the film kills its supporting character the same way Ringu did, the movie shares the book views on a pseudo-science-fictitious medical-mystery approach with its title and Choi's scientific research on viruses and the conclusions he makes before his death.
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