Racing against the deadline, both men begin investigating the tape. Asakawa shows it to him and although Takayama remains cool and nonchalant, he agrees there is a powerful aura around it and asks Asakawa to make him a copy to study at home, which Asakawa does.

As soon as Asakawa explains the story, Takayama believes him and insists on seeing the tape. Returning to Tokyo with no idea how to avert his fate, Asakawa enlists the help of his curious friend Ryūji Takayama, an apparent psychopath who openly jests he engages in rape. The tape has a horrible mental effect on Asakawa, and he doesn't doubt for a second that its warning is true. Giving a single means of avoiding death, the tape's explanation ends suddenly having been overwritten by an advertisement.

Watching the tape, he witnesses a strange sequence of both abstract and realistic footage, including an image of an injured man, that ends with a warning revealing the viewer has a week to live. Once there he happens upon a mysterious unmarked videotape. His search leads him to 'Hakone Pacific Land', a holiday resort where the youths were last seen together exactly one week before their deaths. 3 Differences between the book and the filmĪfter four teenagers mysteriously die simultaneously in Tokyo, Kazuyuki Asakawa, a reporter and uncle to one of the deceased, decides to launch his own personal investigation.

The Ring by Kōji Suzuki