Two decades after giving birth to the J-horror craze with the original Ring, director Hideo Nakata has returned with his franchise icon in tow for the film Sadako, a new Ring film.
Check out the trailer below from Kadokawa Pictures.
As reported by Moshi Moshi Nippon, Sadako will be released in Japan on May 24th.
The site details, “The film will star Elaiza Ikeda as the main character Mayu Akigawa, a psychology counselor who gets involved in an incident with Yusuke Ishida, played by Takashi Tsukamoto, who will try to fix it. Hiroya Shimizu will play the part of Mayu’s younger brother Kazuma Akigawa who becomes a YouTuber to try and awaken Sadako’s curse. Himeka Himejima will play Jinko, a mysterious girl who lost her memory and is taken in at the hospital Mayu works at. Renn Kiriyama will play Mayu’s colleague Minori Fujii.”
In the original 1988 film, a reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.