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August 17, 2004

Ringu

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It is not often one has the opportunity to watch a Japanese film and its American and Korean remakes (a visual comparison of the three is instructive though should be taken with a maximum spoiler alert). Having just had a Ringu, Ring, Ring Virus film festival I am entirely certain I did not want to learn this bit of Ring trivia.

Yamamura Shizuko is based on a real person, Mifune Chizuko, who was born in 1886 in Kumamoto Prefecture and who was rumored to have the gift of foresight. After a demonstration in 1910, she was proclaimed a charlatan and killed herself a year later.

I can only imagine what Mifune Chizuko would make of the film(s) based on Suzuki Koji's novel. I had avoided Ringu due to marketing comparisons of its American remake with the entirely mediocre Sixth Sense. Well worth the trouble to track down as this was the best fright I have had in some time.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at August 17, 2004 08:55 AM

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