Director Hideo Nakata's Ringu is horror anchored on psychological suspense; it tells the story of Sadako, a Japanese girl with inherited psychic powers (and mental illness). She is admitted to a ...

Popular perception of Japanese horror, or J-horror, might be limited to "Ringu" and "Ju-on: The Grudge," but there's more to ...

In 1998 it was adapted into a Japanese film Ringu and in 2002 The Ring a Hollywood ... Ring borrows heavily from Japanese folklore.. Sadako the antagonist in Ring is similar to a Yuurei ghost ...

HIROSHIMA--Metal replicas of paper cranes folded by atomic bombing victim Sadako Sasaki are now on sale, offering an ever-lasting symbol of hope and peace. “They (the reproduced cranes ...