- The directer of Ringu directed Ringu 2
- He was offered by Dreamworks to direct the second action ring
Why was Ringu so significant
- Ringu came out in 1998, back before DVD’s and digital media took over the media landscape
- If you wanted to watch a film at home you had to use a VCR
- Nowadays Sadako might get to her victims through a viral video on youtube.
- Ringu kicked off the rebirth of Japanese horror films as a genre spawning a whole series of “J horror” films, many of which were remade into hollywood films.
- Vengeful spirits became a huge business
- Sadako became a pop culture iconic Japanese culture
- Sadako’s appearance and movements were inspired, in part, by Butoh, a strange and grotesque dance form created in japan after the horrors of world war 1
- Her appearance draws a lot from Japanese ghosts
- She shares many characteristics with classic Yuurei ghosts
- Your are usually women with a white face, long black hair and a long white kimono that trails off into the midst where her legs should be.
- the reason for this appearance is; this is how Japanese women looked when they are buried
- Traditionally the woman wore their hair tied up while living, but their hair was let down when they died.
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