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During his investigation, he discovers a videotape with a terrible warning: 'Those who view these images are fated to die at this exact moment one week from now.' With the aid of a friend, Asakawa traces the video to an alleged psychic and her daughter, Sadako. The plot will be familiar to the movie's many fans: a reporter, Asakawa, connects the death of his niece to the deaths of three other high school students. The success of the 2002 American movie The Ring, a remake of Hideo Nakata's Ringu, has excited interest both in the original film and in the novel on which it's based.

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