Swan’s Japanese Horror Reviews 1: Ring series


Episode one: Ring series. This is my video review of the ring (ringu) movies. Ringu 1 and 2 were directed by Hideo Nakata, Rasen was directed by George Iida, and Ringu 0 was directed by Norio Tsuruta. Hopefully, this will be the first of many video reviews on region one Japanese Horror or j-horror as it's sometimes called. I'm thinking my next review will be on the Ju-on films released here, so please tell me what you think and I'll see you next time! ~Swan (note that Japanese names are given here in the more Western order of given name and then family name.)

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25 Responses to “Swan’s Japanese Horror Reviews 1: Ring series”

  1. AMOVIEGUY14 Says:

    RIP Rodger Swan

  2. Is the spiral book the same thing as Uzumaki?

  3. importedinventions Says:

    The entire series on DVD is for sale now on Ebay item # 330422503482

  4. clumsyperson7474 Says:

    RIP

  5. darksajdofmoc Says:

    Not so bad for a remake, but, it’s not such a great hit as Ringu. But I had watched worse remakes, for example The Call (director was afraid of difficult topics in original movie), The Uninvited (a stupid bloody thriller, with reverted characters), American Shutter (a lot of nudity not so pretty women, superficial motive without suspense), but the worst was The Grudge 3… So you may watch it. Not bad.

  6. Johnlindsey289 Says:

    Ringu is awesome.

    What do you think of the American remake?

  7. Never checked out the Japanese versions, deffo will now.

    Rest in peace brother.

  8. great ending guy…..

  9. linecator81 Says:

    I know that SHOULD be as you said, but because of this youngster’s accent, you can hear deformed words.
    Japanese vowels are similar to yidish vowels. Have you ever read yidish? They put “h” consonant after vowels to prevent these mistakes, “oh” is not “oe”, “ah” is not “ay”, for example “Shiloh” (not “Shiloe”). Japanese vowels sounds similar: Sah-dah-koh (not Sa-da-koe), Mah-ih Tah-kah-noh (not My Ta-ke-noe) etc.
    And japanese D is like voiced T, not similar to R.
    PS. Sanada, not Sanara.

  10. supervampyfan Says:

    lolz… for a half a minute, i was gunna close it… but then you said. ‘i don’t have a VHS player’ and i was like phew

  11. supervampyfan Says:

    first of all, its Hideo Nakata, Koji Suzuki, Takayama, Hiroyuki Sanara(most accutrate),Mai Tanako and Sadako

  12. linecator81 Says:

    I believe you.

  13. linecator81 Says:

    Dear boy. Your knowledge is great, but your accent is nightmarish! You don’t have to speak Japanese, but you should’t hurt this language so much! “Hedayo Nacatcha”, “Cody Suzuki”, “Takuyama”, “Hyoyuki Sanara”, “My Tacanoe”, and even “Sarako”!!! Have mercy!

  14. martyrofevil Says:

    I know I’m alone here but I didn’t like Ringu. It starts off fine but then once you hit the flashbacks and people with psychic abilities it just gets so ridiculous that you can’t possibly be frightened by it. The “eye” scene is also ruined by having it on the cover of the movie. The only thing saving it is the ending which is where the american version really dropped the ball.

  15. 1heartless1 Says:

    D: ARGH!!! *begins searching at every wal mart she in her city*

  16. LouisElegantRequiem Says:

    I got mine at the one in Moncton, New Brunswick.

  17. 1heartless1 Says:

    the original I have to say was better than the hollywood version, and the second part, they just toally destroyed it =_=

  18. 1heartless1 Says:

    WHAT??? WHich WAL MART??

  19. I saw all of the Ringu movies when I was small and lived in Japan. I was always afraid of watching T.V. or going to the bathroom at night :( But my mom saw a little girl with long hair covering her face and she was wearing a white dress with blood all over it, NOT KIDDING. So we moved far, far, far away. Now my mom gets mad at me at night because everyone, even my teachers say I look like Sadako. In fact, that’s my nick name, well next to Bruha Shields.

  20. Messenger33 Says:

    Christ. My computer froze as he was giving a close-up of the eye. Then while I was waiting for the lag to pass, my damn phone rang.

  21. iMapleSyrupi Says:

    Haven’t been able to see Rasen so I can’t say.
    xD
    I’ve heard a lot from both haters and fans of it though, so I’ll get to it.

  22. Chimerism101 Says:

    Which is weird, because Rasen was the most dissed overall.

  23. iMapleSyrupi Says:

    Ringu 2, he said, is the one that sucks.

  24. blesstehfall Says:

    whats so good about the ending

  25. I saw Ringu before it became popular and it haunted me for weeks. The atmosphere was so intense and that ending…

    It didn’t help that my brother would place the dvd (with Sadako’s face on the cover) in different places around my room so I would see it at unexpected moments. Once he put it under my pillow and my hand touched it as I was drifting off to sleep. I pulled it out and the eye was staring at me…my heart was racing for about half an hour. I had to hide the dvd in a cupboard!

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