Ring

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 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.