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Ring 0 is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Norio Tsuruta with Yukie Nakama

Ring 0 (2000)

Ringu 0: Bāsudei

Ring 0
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Length 1h39
Directed by
OriginJapon
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Fantastic,    Horror
Rating59% 2.952512.952512.952512.952512.95251

Ring 0: Birthday (リング0 バースデイ, Ringu Zero: Bāsudei) is a 2000 Japanese psychological horror film. It is the prequel to the film Ring and the fifth installment in the Ring franchise. It was directed by Norio Tsuruta, based on a screenplay by Hiroshi Takahashi. The film's screenplay is based on the short story Lemonheart from the Birthday anthology by Koji Suzuki. There is also a manga adaptation. It was nominated for Best Film at the 2001 Fantasporto.

Synopsis

Thirty years before the events of Ring, Akiko Miyaji, a reporter whose fiancé and fellow reporter was killed during Shizuko Yamamura's publicized ESP demonstration years before, interviews Sudo, an elementary school principal and a former teacher of Shizuko's daughter, Sadako, attempting to gain information and evidence that Sadako inherited her mother's nensha powers. Meanwhile, a 19-year-old Sadako joins an acting troupe as an understudy as a therapy to her nightmares suggested by her doctor. Sadako has natural beauty and charisma for the play, infuriating her senior, Aiko Hazuki, whose relationship with the troupe director, Yusaku Shigemori, sours due to the latter's newfound favor for the young trainee. Aiko is later found murdered by a figure in white, thus Sadako takes her place for the upcoming play as the lead character. Sadako attracts and reciprocates the attention of the troupe sound director, Hiroshi Toyama, much to the disappointment of costume designer and Toyama's girlfriend, Etsuko Tachihara. While praised by Shigemori and Toyama, other troupe members grow to distrust and fear Sadako, as they suspect that she is the one who caused Aiko's death and other supernatural occurrences, including strange dreams pertaining to a well and an apparition of a girl in white with long hair very similar to Sadako.

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The Ring

Ring (1995) The Spiral (1998) Ring (1998) Ring 2 (1999) The Ring Virus (1999) Ring 0 (2000) The Ring (2002) The Ring Two (2005) Rings (2005) Sadako 3D (2012) Sadako 3D 2 (2013) Rings (2017)

The Ring

Ring (1995) The Spiral (1998) Ring (1998) Ring 2 (1999) The Ring Virus (1999) Ring 0 (2000) The Ring (2002) The Ring Two (2005) Rings (2005) Sadako 3D (2012) Sadako 3D 2 (2013)

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