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Ringu 0: Baasudei (2000)
Country of Origin: Japan
Year of Production: 2000
Running Times: 98 mins
Format: black and white/colour
Ratio:
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PRODUCTION
Executive Producer: Masato Hara
Producers: Shinji Ogawa, Masao Nagai, Takashige Ichise
SCRIPT
Script: Hiroshi Takahashi
Short Story: Suzuki Kôji
DIRECTION
Director: Norio Tsuruta
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Takahide Shibanushi
MUSIC
Music: Shin'ichirou Ogata
SPECIAL MAKE-UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up: Tomio Haraguchi
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Hajime Matsumoto, Nobuaki Sugiki
Photographic Effects: Keisuke Katoono
OTHER CREW
Continuity: Keisuke Katoono
CAST
Yukie Nakama (Sadako Yamamura)
Seiichi Tanabe (Hiroshi Tooyama)
Yoshiko Tanaka (Akiko Miyaji)
Atsuko Takahata (Kaoru Arima)
Kumiko Asou (Etsuko Tachihara)
Takeshi Wakamatsu (Shigemori)
Ryuushi Mizukami (Wataru Kuno)
Kaoru Okunuki (Aiko Haduki)
Yasushi Kimura
Mami Hashimoto (Kiyomi)
Daisuke Ban (Dr Heihachirou Ikuma)
Masako (Shizuko Yamamura)
Kazue Tsunogae (Sudou)
Norio Murata, Kouji Yano, Yuu Unou, Akira Igarashi, Kouji Nakano (actor)
Hinata Takamine (actress)
Kanji Watanabe, Sensaburou Makimura, Shuuichirou Idemitsu (theatrical
company staff)
Noukou Morishita, Tsukasa Kimura, Akane Tachibana (theatrical company
students)
Masato Ooba (Takashi Yamamura)
Youji Tanaka (teacher)
Manabu Kadowaki (Akiko's fiance)
Chinami Furuya (young Sadako)
Gou Shimada (Akiko's co-worker)
Eisuke Tsunoda
Yukimi Koyanagi (nurse)
Ikumi Takebe
Taeko Kodama
Makoto Yamagishi
Mami Asou
Izumi Sakagaki
Yuki Moriwaki
Tomohide Matsui
Masafumi Nakai
Noriko Naruse
Youko Nakatani
Toshihiro Okabe
Chikara Yamamoto
Nozomi Sasaki
Takaki Kobayashi
Takashi Nanami
Makoto Suzuki
Koujin Kama
Masahiro Shimizu
Nobuyuki Ogawa
Hisaji Kohinata
Yasuyuki Hirano
Fumiko Ozaki
PLOT SUMMARY
In this prequel to the original Ringu
(1998), we find out more about Sadako and how she came to be the monster
that would later unleash the video curse on the world.
AVAILABILITY
Japan
Video Distributor: Kadokawa Shoten/Asmic Ace (A16H-00260)
DVD Distributor: Kadokawa Shoten/Asmic Ace (KABD-81)
UK
Video Distributor: Metro-Tartan
DVD Distributor: Metro-Tartan
TIMELINE
2000
January
22: Japan - theatrical release
October
27: Japan - DVD release (Kadokawa Shoten/Asmic Ace (KABD-81))
2001
July
22: Australia - shown at the Melbourne International Film Festival
2002
February
Day Unknown: UK - video and DVD release (Metro-Tartan)
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Ring 0: Birthday
LINKS
PREQUEL TO
Ringu (1998)
Rasen (1998)
Rasen (1999)
Ringu 2 (1998)
SEE ALSO
Ringu (1995)
Ring: Saishushô (1999)
Ring Virus (1999)
WEB LINKS
Ringworld - "Your source
for the most complete information on the Ring available
on the internet"
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Fangoria no.203 (June 2001) pp.16-19,
82; 20(USA)
illustrated article, interview with Norio Tsuruta (Celebrating Ring
0: Birthday by Norman England); illustrated article, interview with
Yukie Nakama (Sadako masochism by Norman England)
Screen International no.1231 (22 October
1999) p.17 (USA)
credits, production details
Sight and Sound vol.12 no.4 (April 2002)
p.68 (UK)
DVD review (by Geoffrey McNabb)
Variety 16 July 2001 p.21 (USA)
credits, synopsis, review (by Derek Elley)
OTHER SOURCES
54th Edinburgh Film Festival Catalogue (2000)
p.132
illustrated credits, synopsis, review
KEYWORDS
prequels; possession
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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