Ringu4K Ultra HD (Restored)Genre: World CinemaLabel: Arrow VideoDescription: In 1998 director Hideo Nakata (Dark Water) unleashed a chilling tale of technological terror on unsuspecting audiences which redefined the horror genre launched the J-horror boom in the West and introduced a generation of moviegoers to a creepy dark-haired girl called Sadako. The film's success spawned a slew of remakes reimaginations and imitators but none could quite boast the power of Nakata's original masterpiece which melded traditional Japanese folklore with contemporary anxieties about the spread of technology. A group of teenage friends are found dead their bodies grotesquely contorted their faces twisted in terror. Reiko (Nanako Matsushima When Marnie Was There) a journalist and the aunt of one of the victims sets out to investigate the shocking phenomenon and in the process uncovers a creepy urban legend about a supposedly cursed videotape the contents of which causes anyone who views it to die within a week - unless they can persuade someone else to watch it and in so doing pass on the curse...
