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Ringu

Hideo Nakata

1998 · Japan · The Self-Aware Nineties

Ringu (1998)

Directed by Hideo Nakata

A cursed videotape and seven days to live. Sadako crawling from the TV launched the J-horror wave.

Ghost StoryJ-Horror & K-Horror

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