Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit.
- dying and death
- journalist
- based on novel or book
- theatre group
- prequel
- killer
- based on short story
- wizard
- parapsychology
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Yukie Nakama
Sadako Yamamura
Seiichi Tanabe
Hiroshi Tôyama
Kumiko Aso
Etsuko Tachihara
Yoshiko Tanaka
Akiko Miyaji
- Takeshi Wakamatsu — Yûsaku Shigemori
- Ryushi Mizukami — Wataru Kuno
- Kaoru Okunuki — Aiko Hazuki
- Yasushi Kimura — Togashi
- Mami Hashimoto — Joshikôsei
- Daisuke Ban — Heihachirô Ikuma
- Masako — Shizuko Yamamura
- Yoshiyuki Morishita — Gekidan Kenkyûsei
- Atsuko Takahata — Kaoru Arima
- Yoji Tanaka — Dansei Kyôyu (uncredited)
- Directed
- Norio Tsuruta
- Written
- Hiroshi Takahashi
Production
- Rating
- 6.1 / 10 · 293 ratings
- Studio
- Ring 0 Production Group
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1998Ring
Where it starts.
The Spiral
1998
Ring 2
1999
Ring 0
2000 · You’re here
Sadako vs. Kayako
2016
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
