User:Ekatkormilitsyna/sandbox

Ring (リング Ringu?) is a 1998 Japanese horror film by Hideo Nakata, adapted from the novel Ring by Kōji Suzuki, which in turn draws on the Japanese folk tale Banchō Sarayashiki. The film stars Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Rikiya Ōtaka. The film follows TV-reporter and single mother Reiko who is caught up in a series of deaths surrounding a cursed video tape.

Production took approximately 9 months.[5] After release, Ring inspired numerous films within the "Ring-universe" and triggered a western trend of Japanese remakes.

At the time of its release the film was the highest grossing horror film in Japan at 12 billion yen ($137.7 million).