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International Remakes and Adaptations

 * Korean remake: The Ring Virus (known as Ring in Korea, 1999)
 * Video game adaption: The Ring: Terror's Realm (2000)
 * American remake: The Ring (2002)
 * American remake: The Ring Two (2005)

The first American remake follows the original closely although plot elements are altered or added in and Sadako Yamamura is reformed into Samara Morgan.

The international success of the Japanese films launched a revival of horror filmmaking in Japan that resulted in such pictures as Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2001 film Pulse (known as Circuit (回路) in Japan), Takashi Shimizu's The Grudge (呪怨) (2000), Hideo Nakata's Dark Water (仄暗い水の底から), also based on a short story by Suzuki), and Higuchinsky's Uzumaki (2000, aka Vortex, based on the Junji Itō horror manga of the same name).

Sadako 3D, based on Kōji Suzuki's 2012 follow-up novel S, was released on May 12, 2012. In March 2013, it was announced that second sequel, titled Sadako 3D2, would be released nationwide August 30, 2013.