A mysterious videotape warns that the viewer will die in one week unless a certain, unspecified act is performed.
Exactly one week after watching the tape, four teenagers die one after another of heart failure.
Asakawa, a hardworking journalist, is intrigued by his niece's inexplicable death. His investigation leads him from a metropolitan Tokyo teeming with modern society's fears to a rural Japan — a mountain resort, a volcanic island, and a countryside clinic — haunted by the past. His attempt to solve the tape's mystery before it's too late—for everyone—assumes an increasingly deadly urgency.
Ring is a chillingly told horror story, a masterfully suspenseful mystery, and a postmodern trip.
The inspiration for the new major motion picture RINGS. The success of Koji Suzuki's novel Ring has led to manga, television, and film adaptations in Japan, Korea, and the U.S.