The Ring (franchise)

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Ring (Japanese: リング, romanized: Ringu), also known as The Ring, is a horror media franchise, based on the novel series of the same name written by Koji Suzuki. The franchise includes nine Japanese films, two television series, eight manga adaptations, three English-language American film remakes, a Korean film remake, and two video games: The Ring: Terror's Realm and Ring: Infinity (both 2000). While most installments of the franchise are dramatic supernatural horror fiction, other genres are also explored, with the novel Loop (1998) being science fiction–focused, and the manga series Sadako-san and Sadako-chan (2019) and Sadako at the End of the World (2020) and feature film Sadako DX (2022) being comedy-focused. The Japanese Ring films revolve around a cursed video tape; whoever watches the tape dies seven days later, unless the tape is copied and shown to another person, who then must repeat the same process. The video tape was created by a psychic, Sadako Yamamura, who was murdered...

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