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Sadako (Yukie Nakama) had a tough childhood: Her mother (Masako), a
famous psychic, was accused of fraud at a press conference and killed
herself, but as a result, all the journalists present at the press
conference died as well. Later, All girls in Sadako's swimming class died
- which soon earned Sadako the reputation of being creepy and made her an
outcast.
Now though, Sadako is in her early twenties and studies to be an actor,
and things are looking up. But nosey reporter Miyaji (Yoshiko Tanaka) is
already on her trail, for personal reasons as she claims (it is never
really explained why), and soon tragedy starts all over again: Aiko (Kaoru
Okonuki), the leading lady of the play Sadako's drama troupe is
rehearsing, dies under mysterious circumstances, and when Sadako is
offered the lead role instead, everybody thinks Sadako had something to do
with Aiko's death. Then the play's director Shigemori (Takeshi Wakamatsu)
first tries to get in her panties, then beats her - which causes Toyama
(Seiichi Tanabe), Sadako's boyfriend, to intervene and accidently kill
Shigemori, which forces him and Sadako to hide the body. And then Etsuko
(Kumiko Aso), the troupe's dressmaker who's secretly in love with Toyama,
conspires with Miyaji, and at the premiere of the play, instead of some
background music, Etsuko makes sure that a tape of Sadko's mother's press
conference is played - which causes Sadako to almost lose it, and when her
fellow actors think she is setting free her supernatural powers, they beat
her to death, with only Toyama trying to stop the lynching.
However, Miyaji has since found out there are not one but two sadako's,
and the other might be well hidden away at her father Ikuma's
(Daisuke Ban) place, so the Miyaji and her lynchmob of actors go there to
kill the other Sadako as well - thing is, the other Sadako is the evil
one, and she soon enough kills teh whole lynchmob one by one. Meanwhile
though, good Sadako comes back to life, lures Toyama to his death ... but
finally is hit over the head by her own father and thrown into the well
she will spend the rest of her days ...
Confused ?
The first Ringu is a deserved
classic of Japanese horror cinema, Ringu 2
is a rather unnecessary sequel that had its fine (and creepy) moments,
this film here on the other hand is just unnecessary, it does not
contribute anything new to the Ringu-mythology, instead it
comes across exactly as what it is - a rather klutzy attempt to milk a
cash cow. That said, the film doesn't start out at all bad, rather like a
moody story about an Ugly Duckling-kind of girl with supernatural
powers strongly reminiscent of Stephen King's/Brian De Palma's Carrie,
then though the film makes an effort to explain everything away - and this
is where teh film starts to miserably fail, as every explanation the film
offers is sillier than the last (with the two Sadakos being pretty much
the worst and most confusing idea of the film). A pity, because this film
could have worked as an old-fashioned but moody shocker without any ties
to the Ringu-cycle of films, but as it is, the film is
pretty much shit ...
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