This is a1998 Japanese horror movie which been
directed by Hideo Nakata, the writers of this movie is named Hiroshi Takahashi
(screenplay), and the stars in this movie is Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani and Yûko
Takeuchi.
Two teenagers, Masami (Hitomi Sato) and Tomoko (Yuko
Takeuchi) talk about a videotape recorded by a boy in Izu which is fabled to
bare a curse that kills the viewer seven days after watching. Tomoko then
reveals that a week ago, she and three of her friends watched a weird tape and
received a call after watching it. Awkwardly similar to the storied videotape,
Masami realizes that Tomoko was fated to die. After some troubling moments,
Tomoko is killed by a hidden energy with Masami having the horror of watching.
After many days later, Asakawa Reiko (Nanako
Matsushima), a reporter investigating the popularity of the video curse among
teenagers, discovers that her niece, Tomoko and her three other friends
mysteriously died at the same time on the same night with their faces twisted
in a rectus of fear. She also discovers that Masami, the girl who was with
Tomoko when she died, went crazy and is now in a mental hospital. After
stumbling upon Tomoko's photos from the past week, Reiko finds out that the
four teenagers stayed in a rental cabin in Izu. Eventually, she flips to a
photo of the teens with their faces blurred and distorted.
Later, Reiko goes to Izu and finds an unlabeled tape
in the reception room of the rental cottage where the teenagers stayed.
Watching the tape inside Cabin B4, Reiko sees the tape containing a series of
seemingly unrelated disturbing images. As soon as the tape is over, Reiko receives
a phone call, a realization of the tell-tale videotape curse. Then on, she now
assumes that she has a week to live. On the first day, Reiko enlists the help
of her ex-husband, Ryuji Takayama (Hiroyuki Sanada). They take a picture of
Reiko and find her face blurred in the photograph, further confirming that
Reiko really was cursed. Ryuji then watches the tape, against Reiko's
objections. A day later, Reiko creates a copy for Ryuji for them to study. They
find a hidden message embedded within the tape saying that "if you keep on
doing 'shoumon', the 'boukon' will come for you." The message is in a form
of language from Izu Oshima Island. The two sail for Oshima (after Asakawa's
son watches the videotape) and find out the history of the great psychic Shizuko
Yamamura.
With only a day left, Reiko and Ryuji discovered
that Shizuko's lost daughter, Sadako, must have made the videotape. Determined,
the two go back to Izu with the assumption that Sadako is dead and it was her
vengeful spirit that killed the teenagers. The duo then uncover a well under
Cabin B4 and realize, through a vision, that Sadako's father killed her and
threw her into the well. They try to empty the well and find Sadako's body in
an attempt to appease her spirit. Reiko finds Sadako's body. When nothing
happens to her, they believe that the curse is broken.
Everything seems fine until the following day when
Ryuji is at his home and his TV switches on by itself viewing the image of a
well. He stares in horror as the ghost of Sadako crawls out of the well and out
of Ryuji's TV set and kills him. Desperate to find a cure to save her son,
Reiko realized what she did that Ryuji did not, thus saving her: She copied the
tape and showed it to him. With a VCR and Ryuji's copy of the tape, Reiko rides
to her son in effort to save him, realizing that this is a never-ending cycle:
The tape must always be copied and passed on to ensure the survival of the
viewers.
BY:ALISSA PRIYA DARSHINI
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