Ring 0: Birthday (2000)

Original title

リング０　バースデイ

Directed by

Norio Tsuruta

Genre

horror film, ghost film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 287 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a prequel to the Ring series. It follows Sadako Yamamura in the days before her horrible fate. The film shows her as a young woman with strange powers struggling to fit in.

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What happens

Ring 0: Birthday (Japanese: リング0 バースデイ, Hepburn: Ringu Zero: Bāsudei) is a 2000 Japanese supernatural psychological thriller film directed by Norio Tsuruta, from a screenplay by Hiroshi Takahashi, based on the short story "Lemon Heart" from the Birthday anthology by Koji Suzuki. A prequel to Ring (1998), the story follows the life of the character of Sadako Yamamura just before she consigned to her fate seen in the later Ring series. Ring 0, along with Isola was known for being one of the earliest Japanese live-action psychological thriller-focused films to be released theatrically. as well as the first psychological thriller films which released theatrically in Japan during early 2000s to gross over ¥1 billion in distribution income, preceding other releases like The Beach, Unbreakable, Vanilla Sky and Panic Room. Ring 0: Birthday was nominated for the 2001 edition of Fantasporto, but lost to Amores perros. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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