![]() Anyone curious in how the Japanese see themselves will find this book a fascinating, and ultimately highly disturbing, experience. Men could not bear children"), fans of the movie won't be disappointed. Despite a somewhat pedestrian and unintentionally comic prose style that seems derived from manga comics ("Ryuji was right. ![]() But the misogynistic society that persecutes Sadako and her mother must ultimately bear witness to its sin-or perish. As in a classic ghost story, fate singles out one, often innocent character as a scapegoat. During his investigation, he discovers a videotape with a terrible warning: "Those who view these images are fated to die at this exact moment one week from now." With the aid of a friend, Asakawa traces the video to an alleged psychic and her daughter, Sadako. The plot will be familiar to the movie's many fans: a reporter, Asakawa, connects the death of his niece to the deaths of three other high school students. ![]() ![]() The success of the 2002 American movie The Ring, a remake of Hideo Nakata's Ringu, has excited interest both in the original film and in the novel on which it's based. ![]()
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