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Director: Hideo Nakata Year: 1999 Language: Japanese (English Sub) Country: 日本 (Japan)

The second sequel to the movie which brought the Ring phenomenon to Western audiences is a direct follow on from Ringu. The plot mostly follows Mai Takano, a student of Ryuji Takayama who died in the famous ending to the original. Takano is trying to get to the bottom of her mentor's death and in doing so winds up getting involved with the curse of Sadako. There are also sub-plots following the police who are keen to track down Reiko Asakawa and her son Yoichi as well as a journalist sniffing around the story.

This is a completely different plot from Spiral (either the film or the book), although the main characters are similar. Stylistically, the film is a bit more crazy than the original as well, with lots of psycho-babble and a plot which jumps around quite a bit.

All in all, Ringu 2 is still pretty creepy and fans of the series shouldn't be disappointed (although will probably have already seen this).

Dave W - 30th March, 2010 - 22:44