This version was good but because the scariest elements were the faces and samyra coming out of the tv, I'm going to go with the american version as the better one.
A brilliant horror film. This is better than the remake in my opinion because it is slow an throws a scary scene right in the face and I was frozen with goosebumps all over! The remake was good but did not affect me as much... even though the images and direction was stunning
If you watch the other stories in the series or try to read the books, things get VERY confusing. Something about an actual virus...mixing tehcnology with biology...
hmmm.. i watched american version wen i was seven with bro and sis. it wasnt scary but now i just finished watchin this stuff and i think i shit my pants...
@bazeye I'm guessing she'd tell the grandad what would happen to him and he'll do it willingly, seeing how much he loves Yoichi. Then it would be more of a sacrafice and less of a murder.
Just my interpretation though, maybe she just really hates her dad. XDD
@CatAngelheart - I prefer your interpretation of the situation, it would be more consistent with her personality which just exposes how unimaginative I can be sometimes :)
Wait, I don't understand. If all you had to do to survive was copy it, why did they only consider that at the end and instead go through all that irrelevant crap just to complete a backstory? I mean, if they found the body and uncovered the murder, isn't that where the curse should be lifted? I originally assumed that the whole "rage" thing was she wanted to get the story out to reveal her murder. The ending ruined that theory, now I'm lost. Why else would the tape even exist?
@turquoiseguy it existed because she was angry. she didn't need someone to knnow because that wouldn't be rage, that would be attention. what she wants is people to kill and to make other people kill by making others watch the video.
@onceapiece thanks for the comment. I sort of assumed that, but I am still aggravated by the ending because it makes everything they did in the movie pointless. I mean, I know it was made that way to portray the plot to the viewer, but I feel it could have been in done in a better way than to have the conclusion undermine everything that was done.
sorry, I didn't understand, at the beginning when she's in the cabin she watch the original cassette moreover when her ex-husband takes a picture of her, her face is blurred and then why she is not cursed? she watched the original cassette once and then...? she should be cursed. Could anyone explain? thanks.
@JEluvs2laugh Now I think to understand she doesn't die 'cause shows it her ex-husband, but this one only watches and doesn't show the cassette to someone else.
The ex-husband, asI remember, watches the original or she already made a copy?
@giulene ya the husband never saw the original, only the copy. the lady saw the original and saw the copy, with her ex, which is why she didn't die. i guess if you only see the copy you arent safe
@JEluvs2laugh I agree with you, but in the 3 or 4 part she brings the original at husband's home they watch it together and then the husband ask her to make a copy, I watched the movie again yesterday evening just for this matter. At least you Must watch it necessary to another person to be safe.However I think if you give the original to another person for watching you are safe.
wait wait... why was this information only considered relevant at the end. OH NO WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE WHAT TO DO.... IGNORE THE ONLY THING THAT WILL SAVE US!
@XDranzer000 When the lid was placed on the well after her father pushed(bashed) her in, the light from the outside seeped in between the well and the lid. Since it was circular it was a ring. So the only thing she could see as she was dying trying to climb out was a ring at the top.
@XDranzer000 lol love your comment. XDD aside from the obvious well thing, you need to show it to someone else to live and they must show it to someone else, etc...it never ends, it's a loop or a RING.
also, the telephone RINGs after you watch it. LOL XD
Great movie and all... but you can't deny the fact that the skeleton stuff and pretty much everything on that volcano island was unnecessary, as showing the copied tape to someone else was enough to save the person who watched the original. Oh and btw., why did she show the copied tape to her father and not some stranger or bum? Kind of a whorish move :/
Great movie and all... but you can't deny the fact that the skeleton stuff and pretty much everything on that volcano island was unnecessary, as showing the copied tape to someone else was enough to save the person who watched the original. Oh and btw., why did she show the copied tape to her father and not some stranger or bum? Kind of a whorish move :/
this movie was boring >.> sorry but this was boring the mood was much scarrier in the hollywood version... and the plot there was much more interestin... this was full of talking//
@Phaexos Oh man, think how mad they'll be when they find out about all the people, like you, who have watched and supported the bootlegged copies! *gasp*
Just finished this movie, it wasnt as scary as the American Ring but it was very good. It showed the Japanese culture and I love that, same with the Grudge and Ju-on
In the American version I think that kid was came off as this arrogant prick and a little irritating for some reason.I just felt like punching him in the face _-_ This japanese kid was way better than that american one.
Actually I've become practically immune to being scared by films. Some Video games are scary to me, but its because of the immersive effects. I love Ringu though, it has some creepy parts, but I didn't feel on edge. But it's because in the last few years I've watched almost non stop horror films so I can write my own.
I don't really understand the guy with a cloth over his head still. :/ I mean, he helped her with the idea to copy the movie, but he was also in Sadako's memories pointing to something, anyone else understand?
@jneafb Guy in TV is the guy who just died (Ryuuji was it?), helping Reiko to find the copy. The cloth guy in the tape is Sadakos former lover, god knows what he's pointing at. And the cloth over the head trend has something to do with dead people in Japan.
@DiabolicHeart Are you serious about the cloth over the head thingie? Because i had a dream there was someone sitting in my room. With that cloth over his/her head and it was all bloody. The same style like the guy in the movie.
Hmm am I the only one who prefers the American version? This just didn't do much for me.....although props for the plot and such go to Ringu, since this is the original.
Well I've seen both versions now, and I like them both. I will say that the American version is a hell of a lot scarier. The American version uses unique atmosphere(with audio effects, and great, but subtle music) to create that chilling vibe. And the special effects were well-done, but not over-done(which is rare these days). I won't lie, most of today's movies are remakes anyway, and they're bogus. But in this case both movies came out well done.
Nope, it made the ghost girl fall in love with her; think that she was her new mother. At least that's how it was in the English one. I am going to watch the 2nd now
@HidanKitten32 nope it was indeed useless because she wasn't going to be killed even if she didn't rescued her body. she was saved because she passed on the curse. and as for the English Version..... it was never meant to be...
No, she showed it to her dad and told him to copy it and tell whoever he's showing it to to do the same. Like a chainmail, cept with an actual result if you don't comply.
cant the kid just show her, and she copies the tape and shows him, and he copies the tape and shows her, make it go in a circle forever so no innocent die?
I saw the American first: here's what it did better. 1.) The budget is much larger for the U.S. and it shows. Im not saying bigger budget is better but in this case i thought so. Second the Japanese version REALLY asks you to suspend the HELL outta beliefs for the just about everything.
The story, the character, the plot. I mean its almost all legend and myths that comprise plot points in it. Third, they reall'y didnt flesh out sadako too much in Ringu, She was much more scary as a super evil kid. And lastly the pacing for the American I thought was better, it kept me intrested in what was going on. Both good movies though.
The story, the character, the plot. I mean its almost all legend and myths that comprise plot points in it. Third, they reall'y didnt flesh out sadako too much in Ringu, She was much more scary as a super evil kid. And lastly the pacing for the American I thought was better, it kept me interested in what was going on. Both good movies though.
and try to feel what she does. He race against Time and a power unknown and fatal, to save that which is most precious to her. The Ring is all about making people scream. Like all American horror, the word pathetic doesn't even begin to describe its intentions. If A Nightmare of Elm Street is a classic, that's all one can expect from Hollywood.
Feel the movie. And you will find fear. Real fear.
To people who think The Ring is better than Ringu: The point of the movie, I feel is to convey the very suffocation and the constant anxiety one feels when one knows that death is approaching and fast. Its a movie that's supposed to scare by sensation, not by sight [ as is the case of most of jhorror]. Blood, Gore, Twisted faces, all these are subsidiary elements to epress that very horror. The movie is meant to be felt. So, for a while, put yourself in Asakawa's position,
for some reason, for this whole movie the song "Jack and Diane" was playing through my head =D.
i'd say the japanese version of the ring was the last of the real horror movies. The horror movies nowadays (you know what i mean) are not horror movies but just gore-fests.
Oh and horror movies don't scare me. I must have no soul :3
How could that be? The scary scene in ringu was much better than the american version. The scary scene in the american version was spoiled by the special effects. However, the american version is still worth a watch
This is one of the times when I like both the original and the remake. Both are really good. The others like the Grudge, Pulse, etc., I gotta stick to the original versions.
Ok, this movie was good, but the American one was scarier. This didn't scare me at all. I'm not trying to be mean about it, because I didn't know it was originally Japanese until yesterday, and if I had seen this first, I probably would've liked it better, but I think the American was scarier.
lol wth, the music at the end totally had me laughing because after I just watched the whole suspensful/scary movie, they decide to add techno dance music. Yeah that makes sense
The American version is underated. I must admit, i liked it more than the original. It was scarier. Not to say this wasn't good, but I just prefer the remake.
@juliaaw0 Because you knew ahead what to expect. Obviously if you already know the story, watching a remake or the original as a second view, it won't be as scary as the first.
I for one found the Ring very plain and hollow :/
I personally don't find it a bad remake to be honest, just not as good as the original, may it scarier or not.
@juliaaw0 The problem that I have with the Ring is it's just not believable in the culture it was put in. The Ring story has a strong Japanese background to it and that couldn't be translated in the remake. It's pointless to have an onryou in an American horror movie because Western ghosts and demons are not like that. What Hollywood did was basically making the Ring cheaper, trying to copy every cultural aspect of the story and proclaiming its own. The result was ok, but not really good.
@juliaaw0 For example, I for one do not find the Ring scarier at all :/ and it did not respect the deaths of the original novel. Trying to make uglier faces in the dead people doesn't make the movie scarier, it's just proves American audiences like over-the-top effects and gory corpses, when Sadako's victims are not even supposed to die like that (maybe Ju-on's Kayako, but not Sadako). If you knew how the people in the Ring really die (the origin of the virus), you'd certainly agree with me.
@juliaaw0 perhaps but you wouldn't have been scared at all by the American REMAKE if it weren't for this film since America hasn't come up with any of their OWN horror movie ideas they always copy from some other country or what not.
@ClaireBluvNikki Isn't it sad that people find the Ring's success an American success? Plus, people say the remake is scarier because of the faces of the victims die - I thought those face pointless. If you actually know the novel the Ring is based on, you'll understand the virus responsible for the curse hence why people get that face when they die in this movie. Those over-the-top faces in the remake is sooo Hollywood. Sadako kills by suffocating them, she doesn't pass them herpes -.-'
@ClaireBluvNikki you can't tell me i wouldn't have been scared by the remake if it wasnt 4 Ringu America took Ringu and made it better...probably the only film they did snatch, remake n actaully worked.
i didn't no the ring was a remake when it came out way back then n it scared the shit out of me...maybe if i did c this film first i would have had a few scares bt if u wanna compare the American version was much more scary then Ringu...the story line and everything was just....BETTER!!!
I dont like remakes really, but The Ring is a fucking GREAT remake ,witch have this mysterious and creepy Atmosphere.
xXCyberelfexX 3 days ago
A kedvenc filmem!
kares121 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos
THE BEST MOVIE EEEEVVERRRRRRRRRRRR
BichoRocanrolero 1 week ago
This version was good but because the scariest elements were the faces and samyra coming out of the tv, I'm going to go with the american version as the better one.
Ivoreej 1 week ago 2
Yes that was great. And the comments are hilarious on here! xD
NaiNoskcaj 3 weeks ago
Good ol' bag-head man
jmcieslak0 3 weeks ago
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christohopper1 3 weeks ago
A brilliant horror film. This is better than the remake in my opinion because it is slow an throws a scary scene right in the face and I was frozen with goosebumps all over! The remake was good but did not affect me as much... even though the images and direction was stunning
SamuelH105 3 weeks ago
If you watch the other stories in the series or try to read the books, things get VERY confusing. Something about an actual virus...mixing tehcnology with biology...
HadassaMoon144 3 weeks ago
So she's guna make her dad watch it??? What a bitch!
NikiBabyDoll 1 month ago
whats the song over the credits at the end?
lilypie07 1 month ago
@lilypie07 "Feels Like Heaven" by HIIH
bubbawaba98 1 month ago
hmmm.. i watched american version wen i was seven with bro and sis. it wasnt scary but now i just finished watchin this stuff and i think i shit my pants...
MapeXyaHHa 1 month ago
@MapeXyaHHa American version was still scarier, and more atmospheric IMO. This one is still good.
lankeysob 1 month ago in playlist 1.Ringu (1998)
You just gotta copy it, not show it to someone else...
LoqueroPop 2 months ago
Ahhh I get it sadoko didnt want to feel like she was the only monster that's why she made people make people watch it so they die.
Popsqaud302 2 months ago 4
okay, that was it? like, just that!
salometaraya 2 months ago
Disappointed and not scared.
wilsonseto1 2 months ago
Great film but why sacrifice her father to lift the curse, why not a co worker ?
bazeye 2 months ago
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@bazeye
she isn't sacrificing him
TheKanonHara 2 months ago
Funny thing, she showed the original to Ryu before copying. So all she has to do is get that wee lad to copy it and sell it on ebay.
HateFenians 1 month ago
@bazeye I'm guessing she'd tell the grandad what would happen to him and he'll do it willingly, seeing how much he loves Yoichi. Then it would be more of a sacrafice and less of a murder.
Just my interpretation though, maybe she just really hates her dad. XDD
CatAngelheart 4 weeks ago
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bazeye 2 weeks ago
@CatAngelheart - I prefer your interpretation of the situation, it would be more consistent with her personality which just exposes how unimaginative I can be sometimes :)
bazeye 2 weeks ago
...poor daddy
LinChisa 3 months ago
Ez a kedvenc filmem! amit valaha láttam,
nagyon,nagyon szeretem,nekem is megvannak az
összes filmjei.
Mai Takano, Asakava Reiko.
kares121 3 months ago
Wait, I don't understand. If all you had to do to survive was copy it, why did they only consider that at the end and instead go through all that irrelevant crap just to complete a backstory? I mean, if they found the body and uncovered the murder, isn't that where the curse should be lifted? I originally assumed that the whole "rage" thing was she wanted to get the story out to reveal her murder. The ending ruined that theory, now I'm lost. Why else would the tape even exist?
turquoiseguy 3 months ago
@turquoiseguy it existed because she was angry. she didn't need someone to knnow because that wouldn't be rage, that would be attention. what she wants is people to kill and to make other people kill by making others watch the video.
onceapiece 3 months ago
@onceapiece thanks for the comment. I sort of assumed that, but I am still aggravated by the ending because it makes everything they did in the movie pointless. I mean, I know it was made that way to portray the plot to the viewer, but I feel it could have been in done in a better way than to have the conclusion undermine everything that was done.
turquoiseguy 3 months ago
I saw again the movie, she and he watch the original and he, the ex-husband. asks her to copy the cassette and she did.So the curse goes to the guy.
giulene 3 months ago
Great, classic horror movie.... So influential!
VoteABC2011 3 months ago
since the guy only watched the copy, should he have made a copy of the copy? make another copy of the original? or just watch the original?
JEluvs2laugh 3 months ago
sorry, I didn't understand, at the beginning when she's in the cabin she watch the original cassette moreover when her ex-husband takes a picture of her, her face is blurred and then why she is not cursed? she watched the original cassette once and then...? she should be cursed. Could anyone explain? thanks.
giulene 3 months ago in playlist More videos from japhorrorlover
@giulene its a chain letter type of thing. you have to copy and show it to someone else in order to live
EpikTigers 3 months ago
@giulene she watched the copy after watching the original n thats how u dont die. n i think the guy died cuz he only watched the copy.
JEluvs2laugh 3 months ago
@JEluvs2laugh Now I think to understand she doesn't die 'cause shows it her ex-husband, but this one only watches and doesn't show the cassette to someone else.
The ex-husband, asI remember, watches the original or she already made a copy?
giulene 3 months ago
@giulene ya the husband never saw the original, only the copy. the lady saw the original and saw the copy, with her ex, which is why she didn't die. i guess if you only see the copy you arent safe
JEluvs2laugh 3 months ago
@JEluvs2laugh I agree with you, but in the 3 or 4 part she brings the original at husband's home they watch it together and then the husband ask her to make a copy, I watched the movie again yesterday evening just for this matter. At least you Must watch it necessary to another person to be safe.However I think if you give the original to another person for watching you are safe.
giulene 3 months ago
@giulene wait what was the last part? i cant understand.
JEluvs2laugh 3 months ago
@JEluvs2laugh not the last part, I mean when she goes to husband's home and she shows to him the cassette, after watching he asks her to make a copy.
giulene 3 months ago
kuru kitto kuru = Surely come
moguify 3 months ago
...why did the video cassette tape in japan have COPY printed on it...?
DavidDietzII 3 months ago
that is one gorgeous woman!
DavidDietzII 3 months ago
wait wait... why was this information only considered relevant at the end. OH NO WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE WHAT TO DO.... IGNORE THE ONLY THING THAT WILL SAVE US!
BitChronic 4 months ago
COPY THIS COMMENT AND POST IT ON ANOTHER VIDEO
OR SADAKO WILL KILL YOU IN A WEEK.
Lol! Lesson learned.
KrissLucia 4 months ago
wow, movie was great, but the credit music was horrible. lol!
elprincepe 4 months ago
Epic ending
barret1able 4 months ago
when ur abt to die show it to ur friend or smeone when he/she is abt to die ask em to show it to u this way u will nvr have to die :))))))
lameaddict132 4 months ago
I don't undestand the title of the film, there's nothing related to a dirty, stuck up, sadistic, shit eating, cock sucking, butt fucking, penis smelling, crotch grabbing, ball licking, semen drinking, dog raping, nazi loving, child touching, cow humping, pervertist, voilentist, heartless, mindless, dickless, testical choking, urine gargling, jerk offing horse faced, sheep fundeling, toilet kissing, self cantered, feciese puking, dildo shoving, snot spitting, crap grabbin, big nose f*ckin ring!!!
XDranzer000 4 months ago
@XDranzer000 you know the well forms a rings
mushurushubaby 4 months ago
@XDranzer000 When the lid was placed on the well after her father pushed(bashed) her in, the light from the outside seeped in between the well and the lid. Since it was circular it was a ring. So the only thing she could see as she was dying trying to climb out was a ring at the top.
XDesertRatX 4 months ago
@XDranzer000 lol love your comment. XDD aside from the obvious well thing, you need to show it to someone else to live and they must show it to someone else, etc...it never ends, it's a loop or a RING.
also, the telephone RINGs after you watch it. LOL XD
CatAngelheart 4 weeks ago
Some dude took it from a Porn Rental,
1 week later....
He lose his virginity to Sadako!!!
ortherworld 5 months ago 4
Great movie and all... but you can't deny the fact that the skeleton stuff and pretty much everything on that volcano island was unnecessary, as showing the copied tape to someone else was enough to save the person who watched the original. Oh and btw., why did she show the copied tape to her father and not some stranger or bum? Kind of a whorish move :/
GuitarSongCoverDude 5 months ago
Great movie and all... but you can't deny the fact that the skeleton stuff and pretty much everything on that volcano island was unnecessary, as showing the copied tape to someone else was enough to save the person who watched the original. Oh and btw., why did she show the copied tape to her father and not some stranger or bum? Kind of a whorish move :/
GuitarSongCoverDude 5 months ago
日本と同じ結末にすると、アメリカ国内から受け入れられないと判断して
、US版はちょっと変えたんだよね。
bbbodylllanguage 5 months ago
Remeber kids, dont give hugs to bitches who kill people. Hug pandas instead. :)
Midnightwolf72 6 months ago 4
FACE AT 0:46! EPIC CROSS-EYE FAIL LOL
GegenAkzent 6 months ago
this is the chick: "Imma show this shit to the bitch who took my parking spot!!!"
xBrokenxPaperxDollsx 6 months ago in playlist 1.Ringu (1998) 4
I like the gay dance music for the credits.
trentacid008 6 months ago 31
@trentacid008 OMG NAME!
whoopdeedoodude 1 week ago
this movie was boring >.> sorry but this was boring the mood was much scarrier in the hollywood version... and the plot there was much more interestin... this was full of talking//
sparkon 7 months ago
so can somebody tell me why this movie became a worldwide hit? dang!
apatheticpsycho04 7 months ago
fu*kin ending song
rdarmawans 7 months ago 5
so u just have to make a copy of the video and show it to some 90 old and the curse ends!
saanlaaraaa 7 months ago
So it's like one of those creepy chain letters that you get in your inbox
RythmofNature0608 7 months ago 31
Oh, well that wasn't so bad. Phew!
itsxMiki 7 months ago
all u hve to do is to copy the tape and let someone watch it..
daesoh11 7 months ago
Whoever produced that video is gonna be really pissed once they find out all these people have been bootlegging it.
Phaexos 8 months ago 3
@Phaexos Oh man, think how mad they'll be when they find out about all the people, like you, who have watched and supported the bootlegged copies! *gasp*
Critiqu3 7 months ago
Grandpa, will u watch this cured video to save your grandson's life?
TobiShinobii 8 months ago
Remake: Scary ONLY because of scary effects and music
Original: Scary, Suspencefull, and you can't stop watching!
kiettram4869 8 months ago 6
wow nice gay techno beat in the end to make me stop feeling scared
QUAZI2711 8 months ago 6
amazing classic!
maynardmorrissey 8 months ago
すっげ～怖え～！（SUGGEE KOEEE！）
What a scary movie!
hyoreruan 9 months ago
Grandpa :'(
xlicix 9 months ago
the song in the end................ scares me
nobuta10 9 months ago
Also im not into J-Pop but im diggin that song at the end
dominican5683 9 months ago
Just finished this movie, it wasnt as scary as the American Ring but it was very good. It showed the Japanese culture and I love that, same with the Grudge and Ju-on
dominican5683 9 months ago
poor granpa
fuzinoazi 9 months ago
In the American version I think that kid was came off as this arrogant prick and a little irritating for some reason.I just felt like punching him in the face _-_ This japanese kid was way better than that american one.
Ryuuusa 9 months ago 6
lol why was the word "copied" in english?
StarWarsFreaks1138 10 months ago
Great movie, but I first watched the american version and I think thats the better one, don't you?
SamaraMorgan1970 11 months ago
@SamaraMorgan1970 Nope
DekiNoSama 10 months ago
.....This wasn't a scary movie. It was an EXCELLENT movie, but I didn't get any scares from it.
Taraka1 11 months ago
@Taraka1 Its scary when you watched it years ago.Before youtube existed.At night on TV.Cos thats when I watched it and got scared to shit bits.
Ryuuusa 9 months ago
@Ryuuusa
Actually I've become practically immune to being scared by films. Some Video games are scary to me, but its because of the immersive effects. I love Ringu though, it has some creepy parts, but I didn't feel on edge. But it's because in the last few years I've watched almost non stop horror films so I can write my own.
Taraka1 9 months ago 2
Ringu/The Ring is just like one giant chain letter, only scarier and something that actually happens. :D
jneafb 11 months ago
I don't really understand the guy with a cloth over his head still. :/ I mean, he helped her with the idea to copy the movie, but he was also in Sadako's memories pointing to something, anyone else understand?
jneafb 11 months ago
@jneafb Guy in TV is the guy who just died (Ryuuji was it?), helping Reiko to find the copy. The cloth guy in the tape is Sadakos former lover, god knows what he's pointing at. And the cloth over the head trend has something to do with dead people in Japan.
DiabolicHeart 6 months ago
@DiabolicHeart that's exactly right
BikiniDeathSquad 6 months ago
@DiabolicHeart Are you serious about the cloth over the head thingie? Because i had a dream there was someone sitting in my room. With that cloth over his/her head and it was all bloody. The same style like the guy in the movie.
lol38810 6 months ago
@lol38810 I guess so, it's either that or he's preventing himself from getting a heat-stroke.
DiabolicHeart 6 months ago
i don't like this film
djeje22 11 months ago
this is the original, but the american remake is scarier. O.O
e16able 11 months ago
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lol this movie would have been much shorter if she knew what she had done.
Nevetsga90 1 year ago
While not taking anything from the Japanese original, I nevertheless prefered the American version. It was more creepier to me.
hebahabahobaheben 1 year ago 3
I ♥'d this version MUCH MUCH better than american.
i lol'd at the american version a bit.
while this one.... i found myself a bit jumpy when it ended....
TIME FOR JU-ON!
DancingDruidStudio 1 year ago 5
so.. instead of asking some stranger to watch the tape, she choose she make her father watch it instead. wat a great daughter ...
ruckaisawesome 1 year ago 7
American version was much better...how many fucking names to these Japs have? She called her ex husband by like 3 or 4 different names!
themack355 1 year ago
Hmm am I the only one who prefers the American version? This just didn't do much for me.....although props for the plot and such go to Ringu, since this is the original.
MouthOfTheUnknown 1 year ago
I would like to know the song name also!!!
Roserietta 1 year ago
Does anyone know the name of the song that's played during the credits?
TheSvenskaflicka 1 year ago
Well I've seen both versions now, and I like them both. I will say that the American version is a hell of a lot scarier. The American version uses unique atmosphere(with audio effects, and great, but subtle music) to create that chilling vibe. And the special effects were well-done, but not over-done(which is rare these days). I won't lie, most of today's movies are remakes anyway, and they're bogus. But in this case both movies came out well done.
williamperry11 1 year ago 2
just watched this version, and i much prefer the american remake, it's so much scarier than this.
iDominic2010 1 year ago
nice techno music
filth69ify1 1 year ago
@filth69ify1 lol, so out of place...
black4pienus 1 year ago
so... all that skeleton hug was useless after all.....
hyogalovervashsama 1 year ago 115
@hyogalovervashsama
Nope, it made the ghost girl fall in love with her; think that she was her new mother. At least that's how it was in the English one. I am going to watch the 2nd now
HidanKitten32 1 year ago
@HidanKitten32 nope it was indeed useless because she wasn't going to be killed even if she didn't rescued her body. she was saved because she passed on the curse. and as for the English Version..... it was never meant to be...
hyogalovervashsama 11 months ago
@hyogalovervashsama
yeah it was...damn
NickStoneX 11 months ago
i can't believe she's willing to kill her dad to save her son...i would show it to a bastard who i hate...like justin bieber or something
freaknerdzilla 1 year ago 97
@freaknerdzilla I would kill my neighbour who likes to play very loud music at 4 o clock in the night. and her taste in music is terrible....
black4pienus 1 year ago
@freaknerdzilla
No, she showed it to her dad and told him to copy it and tell whoever he's showing it to to do the same. Like a chainmail, cept with an actual result if you don't comply.
Taraka1 11 months ago
@freaknerdzilla can more than one person show it to the same person? cuz i want to show it to the bieber kid too.
YonjeeRingo 9 months ago
@freaknerdzilla But the father is old already, he would die any year now.
TomValedro 7 months ago
@freaknerdzilla Now u're talking
jhangirk 6 months ago
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great movie! nut i like the american version a LOT better. but you cant make a classic without the original, right? ^_^
ecb518 1 year ago
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great movie! nut i like the american version a LOT better. but you cant make a classic without the original, right? ^_^
ecb518 1 year ago
great movie! nut i like the american version a LOT better. but you cant make a classic without the original, right? ^_^
ecb518 1 year ago
i thought the american version was much better much props to this one it was still pretty good !!
denisen555 1 year ago
I still like the american version better, but this version kicked ass and well, it came first, so...
Yay248 1 year ago
i never liked ring... i firstly watched it american version... and now this.. and i think this version was much better then american...
eshalovessrk1 1 year ago
Thank you for uploading this.
foxoutfoxing 1 year ago
Well, she could always tell him to show a copy to someone else...
KenshinObsessor 1 year ago
I liked this a lot, but my heart stays with Ju on :)
termometen 1 year ago
her dad is so mean, GO GIRL :)))))))))))
apollojeans 1 year ago
cant the kid just show her, and she copies the tape and shows him, and he copies the tape and shows her, make it go in a circle forever so no innocent die?
AZNkeeenu 1 year ago 7
greaaat movie!! ^º^
Akane35000 1 year ago
Everyone says the japanese version is waay scarier! The American movie was way better >>;
Murderzombiexx 1 year ago
come on guys he's old, that is the whole point
Louis1059 1 year ago
I saw the American first: here's what it did better. 1.) The budget is much larger for the U.S. and it shows. Im not saying bigger budget is better but in this case i thought so. Second the Japanese version REALLY asks you to suspend the HELL outta beliefs for the just about everything.
biggreatewhite 1 year ago
The story, the character, the plot. I mean its almost all legend and myths that comprise plot points in it. Third, they reall'y didnt flesh out sadako too much in Ringu, She was much more scary as a super evil kid. And lastly the pacing for the American I thought was better, it kept me intrested in what was going on. Both good movies though.
biggreatewhite 1 year ago
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The story, the character, the plot. I mean its almost all legend and myths that comprise plot points in it. Third, they reall'y didnt flesh out sadako too much in Ringu, She was much more scary as a super evil kid. And lastly the pacing for the American I thought was better, it kept me interested in what was going on. Both good movies though.
biggreatewhite 1 year ago
@biggreatewhite who cares the americans copied, so the japs are saved ;)
Louis1059 1 year ago 6
Ringu turns into a party @2:25
mxthegreat 1 year ago 7
え、これで終わり？笑
25AIH 1 year ago
What a horrible ending.
hsuanstr 1 year ago
and try to feel what she does. He race against Time and a power unknown and fatal, to save that which is most precious to her. The Ring is all about making people scream. Like all American horror, the word pathetic doesn't even begin to describe its intentions. If A Nightmare of Elm Street is a classic, that's all one can expect from Hollywood.
Feel the movie. And you will find fear. Real fear.
TheAzuraCookie 1 year ago
To people who think The Ring is better than Ringu: The point of the movie, I feel is to convey the very suffocation and the constant anxiety one feels when one knows that death is approaching and fast. Its a movie that's supposed to scare by sensation, not by sight [ as is the case of most of jhorror]. Blood, Gore, Twisted faces, all these are subsidiary elements to epress that very horror. The movie is meant to be felt. So, for a while, put yourself in Asakawa's position,
TheAzuraCookie 1 year ago 4
wow that was epic :D I liked the American version more, but this version gets major kudos on the ending.. that was great.
WillFoSkill 1 year ago
Good movie!!
Thak You!
ZoeLaCoste 1 year ago
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ihsaraaa 1 year ago
for some reason, for this whole movie the song "Jack and Diane" was playing through my head =D.
i'd say the japanese version of the ring was the last of the real horror movies. The horror movies nowadays (you know what i mean) are not horror movies but just gore-fests.
Oh and horror movies don't scare me. I must have no soul :3
datiki 1 year ago 3
My birthday is September 22nd... and I like techno music. I FINALLY UNDERSTAND!
saze9y14 1 year ago 5
I thought the american version was more interesting.
kasumisman 1 year ago
How could that be? The scary scene in ringu was much better than the american version. The scary scene in the american version was spoiled by the special effects. However, the american version is still worth a watch
102322k 1 year ago
This is one of the times when I like both the original and the remake. Both are really good. The others like the Grudge, Pulse, etc., I gotta stick to the original versions.
KTBEverlasting 1 year ago
meh. i think the American version was scarier. i also think it had a better story. but that's just me.
Koneko716 1 year ago
@Koneko716 no the scene in the jap version was way scarier
102322k 1 year ago
Ok, this movie was good, but the American one was scarier. This didn't scare me at all. I'm not trying to be mean about it, because I didn't know it was originally Japanese until yesterday, and if I had seen this first, I probably would've liked it better, but I think the American was scarier.
Japanese version = better story
American version = scarier/more gory
iknouluvmi1 1 year ago 2
Trust me, if you have seen the Japanese version first your conclusion might be
American version - better story
Japanese version - much scarier and better ending
102322k 1 year ago
lol wth, the music at the end totally had me laughing because after I just watched the whole suspensful/scary movie, they decide to add techno dance music. Yeah that makes sense
alycat387 1 year ago 5
wait, she shows it to her father?? why doesnt she just show it to someone she doesnt know or like?
leviosa2812 1 year ago
@leviosa2812 She was saying that he would have to show it to someone else, and then they would have to show someone else too. It's neverending
TheVampirateGirl 1 year ago
well i hope she helps her dad and find some other dumb-a@# to watch it
JAGPAWNC 1 year ago
Neat ending. I wish I didn't know from the start that she comes out of the TV, or that would have been a serious brick-shitter.
Gaiacarra 1 year ago
huh? o-o.....i dun get it @~@
wizard101major 1 year ago
wasn't as scary as i thought it would be
in fact, it wasn't scary at all
guess that's why they allowed it on youtube
xMangaFanx 1 year ago
@xMangaFanx umm theirs alot of movies that are on youtube.
ClaireBluvNikki 1 year ago
The American version is underated. I must admit, i liked it more than the original. It was scarier. Not to say this wasn't good, but I just prefer the remake.
NotSoAmericanIdiot 1 year ago
ii have to be honest the american version was much more scary...i didnt find this scary at all...
juliaaw0 1 year ago 3
@juliaaw0 Because you knew ahead what to expect. Obviously if you already know the story, watching a remake or the original as a second view, it won't be as scary as the first.
I for one found the Ring very plain and hollow :/
I personally don't find it a bad remake to be honest, just not as good as the original, may it scarier or not.
ImaginaryVoncroy 1 year ago
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i agree...
if i'd watched the original first my views mite be different bt as it stands now... i really thing the remake is better
juliaaw0 1 year ago
@juliaaw0 The problem that I have with the Ring is it's just not believable in the culture it was put in. The Ring story has a strong Japanese background to it and that couldn't be translated in the remake. It's pointless to have an onryou in an American horror movie because Western ghosts and demons are not like that. What Hollywood did was basically making the Ring cheaper, trying to copy every cultural aspect of the story and proclaiming its own. The result was ok, but not really good.
ImaginaryVoncroy 1 year ago
@juliaaw0 For example, I for one do not find the Ring scarier at all :/ and it did not respect the deaths of the original novel. Trying to make uglier faces in the dead people doesn't make the movie scarier, it's just proves American audiences like over-the-top effects and gory corpses, when Sadako's victims are not even supposed to die like that (maybe Ju-on's Kayako, but not Sadako). If you knew how the people in the Ring really die (the origin of the virus), you'd certainly agree with me.
ImaginaryVoncroy 1 year ago
@juliaaw0 perhaps but you wouldn't have been scared at all by the American REMAKE if it weren't for this film since America hasn't come up with any of their OWN horror movie ideas they always copy from some other country or what not.
ClaireBluvNikki 1 year ago
@ClaireBluvNikki Isn't it sad that people find the Ring's success an American success? Plus, people say the remake is scarier because of the faces of the victims die - I thought those face pointless. If you actually know the novel the Ring is based on, you'll understand the virus responsible for the curse hence why people get that face when they die in this movie. Those over-the-top faces in the remake is sooo Hollywood. Sadako kills by suffocating them, she doesn't pass them herpes -.-'
ImaginaryVoncroy 1 year ago
@ClaireBluvNikki you can't tell me i wouldn't have been scared by the remake if it wasnt 4 Ringu America took Ringu and made it better...probably the only film they did snatch, remake n actaully worked.
i didn't no the ring was a remake when it came out way back then n it scared the shit out of me...maybe if i did c this film first i would have had a few scares bt if u wanna compare the American version was much more scary then Ringu...the story line and everything was just....BETTER!!!
juliaaw0 1 year ago
just ends like that? ths is so not scary at all.
simplifiedlovexD 1 year ago 2