Ring

“One curse, one cure, one week to find it.”

In Japan in 1998, a rumor passes between teenagers about a videotape that kills whoever watches it, and whoever watches it has seven days left. Reiko Asakawa (Nanako Matsushima), a journalist chasing the story after a string of deaths, finds the tape and plays it, then turns to her ex-husband Ryuji Takayama (Hiroyuki Sanada) for help. Hideo Nakata keeps the deadline in the corner of every scene, and the tape itself plays on a small, flickering television screen.