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	Koji Suzuki Ring Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		Yes, Suzuki's novel has plenty of surprises for those who have seen both versions of the movie.
		In Suzuki's novel 'Ring' - the first of a trilogy - the protagonist is a cranky, overworked young father.
		But Suzuki is plowing a path that nobody else has traveled, as his 'Ring'-virus is born into an all-too vulnerable world.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2003/suzuki-ring.htm (775 words)

	Ring - Suzuki Koji
		"Suzuki builds tension brilliantly early on: the details he accumulates on the page are banal in themselves, but the narrative voice lurches among them like a stalker-camera, or a malevolent spirit.
		Suzuki chases his characters around Japan, has them dig up some ugly old stories that explain what happened, and even throws in some bad weather for them to contend with.
		Ring is a passable thriller: there's tension, excitement, some neat little stories explaining various pieces of the puzzle.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/japannew/suzukik.htm (833 words)

	Animefringe: March 2005 - Features - The Ring Cycle
		Koji Suzuki's 1991 novel Ring, and its sequels Spiral (which was published in Japan as Rasen), Loop and Birthday have led him to become known as the 'Stephen King of Japan'.
		Ring 0: Birthday was both a prequel and a sequel that was based on Lemonheart, one of the short stories in Koji Suzuki's Ring-related anthology Birthday.
		Images of 'the ring' and the video itself were cunningly scattered throughout the movie so that by the end, viewers not only sat through Rachael's viewing of the cursed tape, but they were also subjected to it almost subliminally.
	www.animefringe.com /magazine/2005/03/feature/01.php (2274 words)

	Nichi Bei Times \| NichiBeiTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The “Spiral” film was mostly faithful to Suzuki’s novel and even features a cameo by Suzuki himself as a man visiting an amusement park with his wife and daughter.
		From the well in the ring, to the water tank in “Dark Water,” to the creature in the bottle in “Drift” — soon to be a Hollywood film — Suzuki chooses cramped, wet places as a habitat for horror.
		Many speculate that “Ring” resonated with audiences not just because of the creepy ghost, but because it spoke to anxieties about the mass media, the erosion of the real in favor of facsimile, and human being’s tendency to work in individual self-interest.
	www.nichibeitimes.com /issues/articles/052506/suzuki.html (1392 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ring: Books: Koji Suzuki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The novel, which tells the story of a journalist investigating the apparently simultaneous deaths of four teenagers, begins as a traditional mystery.
		Ring of course the movie is based on this book; in Japan it was released on the title Ringu, and it was remade in America as The Ring staring Naomi Watts.
		The novel is translated from a language with different conventions for horror/thriller writing, so some readers may be distracted by expository lumps, authorial intrusions, and some odd phraseology, e.g.
	www.amazon.ca /Ring-Koji-Suzuki/dp/1932234004 (1241 words)

	Ring 0 (JAPAN 2000)
		While the film does suggest that Sadako's evil is due to the identity of her true father, the prequel also goes a long way in reinforcing the idea that murderers aren't born, they're made.
		In the end, Ring 0 is successful due to its ability to believably elicit the audience's sympathy for Sadako without compromising her reputation as one of the silver screen's most formidable and chilling monsters.
		Retitled "Mask" for Ring 0, the film details the story of a doctor who kidnapps young girls in the hopes of using their skin to reconstruct his daughter's face, which was mutilated in a car accident.
	www.lovehkfilm.com /panasia/ring_0.htm (845 words)

	Interviews (Koji Suzuki)
		The main story of the Ring (arguably the most famous of your works due to both the Japanese and Dreamworks SKG movie versions) is of a videotape of jarring discordant images that mysteriously kills people who watch it in exactly one week.
		But for a novel, it is necessary to have evil: you have to have good things and bad things for a novel to work.
		Ring appears to be an homage to meticulous detective work that unlocked a disturbing mental landscape.
	www.japanreview.net /interview_Koji_Suzuki.htm (1874 words)

	Ring (1998)
		Ring 2 was intended from the start to take the story in an entirely different direction from Suzuki’s novels, and at least five separate screenplays were considered.
		The phone rings, of course, and when Reiko puts the receiver to her ear, the only sound on the other end of the line is a strange, high-pitched hum exactly like the soundtrack to the tape.
		Ring features no fewer than four characters with some degree of paranormal mental talent, encompassing everything from Yoichi’s limited ability to converse with the spirits of the dead to Sadako’s awesomely lethal psionic arsenal, and at no point is it suggested that there is anything at all odd about this state of affairs.
	www.1000misspenthours.com /reviews/reviewsn-z/ring1998.htm (2407 words)

	Horror: Rising From the East
		Though this is possible, credibility gets badly stretched during their frantic research, though Suzuki's skill as a writer makes the reader gladly go along for a ride.
		Ryuji is a well-drawn character and from all accounts, and Suzuki further developed characterization skills in subsequent novels.
		Suzuki makes the absurd idea of a cursed videotape with an impossible riddle into a plausible quest for the frightening truth behind a very real curse.
	www.lsu.edu /necrofile/ring11.htm (1208 words)

	The Ring Two
		Not only because The Ring brought in scads of money, but because Ringu, the original Japanese version of The Ring, had a sequel, appropriately titled Ringu 2.
		The Ring was the first of this new horror film to arrive in American theaters.
		Both were based on Koju Suzuki's novel Ringu, and both were adapted by Ehren Kruger (Impostor, Reindeer Games).
	www.haro-online.com /movies/ring2.html (546 words)

	Ringu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Suzuki often compares the effect of the tape to a virus (like smallpox) in the sense that it acts like a virus, spreading through the populace indiscriminately.
		Unfortunately, Suzuki kind of fumbles the third act, mucking it up with some unnecessary plot revelations that were overkill for themes that had been handled with subtlety most of the way through.
		Ring Virus hints at the notion that while the tape was born of Euh-Suh, it is not a direct conduit for her to harm anyone.
	www.angelo-verde.com /horrorfilms/nthrur/ringu.html (1973 words)

	Amazon.com: Spiral ('Ring' series, book 2): Books: Koji Suzuki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In Spiral, the sequel to Suzuki's Ring, we are to discover that what the hoped for (if uncomfortable) resolution that seemed to be promised at the end of Ring is not to come to pass.
		Ryuji and Dr. Ando used to be addicted to ciphers, and a string of number on the paper cen be decoded to spell R I N G. Ando is drawn to Mai, Ryuji's student and lover, but before the relationship advanced she disappears.
		And as with "Ring," Suzuki gives you the feeling that the apocalypse is about to hit -- it seems that it's just a matter of time until Sadako wins.
	www.amazon.com /Spiral-Ring-book-Koji-Suzuki/dp/1932234160 (1820 words)

	The Ring (2002)
		The Ring is a creepy, dark film along the same lines of The Sixth Sense and Stir of Echoes, and while in some ways it is actually superior to both of these films, it has one fatal flaw that makes it merely an enjoyable experience rather than a modern classic.
		She may not be entirely convincing as a journalist, but she does manage to ground the movie in reality despite the absurdity of people dying from watching a video tape, and it is because of this that we don't dismiss the film outright.
		Overall The Ring is certainly one of the better films of its genre, but is sadly tarnished by a disappointing and somewhat ridiculous finale.
	www.moovees.com /review/ring.html (276 words)

	TNMC Movie Reviews: The Ring
		The Ring follows the exploits of Rachel Keller, a newspaper reporter who decides to investigate her niece's mysterious death at the insistence of her sister.
		This is what makes The Ring such an enjoyable experience, just when you think that this is it, he pulls you back in and continues to keep you at the edge of your seat.
		The Ring is definitely not your normal by-the-book horror movie, it plays very well and has the ability to grab hold of you and refuses to let go until the credits roll.
	www.tnmc.org /ind/ring.shtml (649 words)

	Should Have Had a Familiar Ring to It
		The Ring Two had a promising beginning—a desperate teenage boy is trying to get “a dumb girl from school” to watch a copy of the fatal video he’s made just for her so that he can avoid the horrific death reserved for those who do not share Samara’s disturbing vision with the world.
		While The Ring Two had some interesting moments, I certainly didn’t find it scarier than the first, mainly because in the first, I’d already seen Samara coming out of that television set, and I’d already seen the empurpled corpses she’d left in her wake, so seeing these things again was anticlimactic.
		And the director, by the way, also directed Ringu (1998), the Japanese version of Suzuki’s novel that is a combination of his story and the then forthcoming 2002 American film.
	www.lsu.edu /necrofile/ringtwo16.htm (747 words)

	The Ring TwO (2005) [Brother Kneumsi Boos]
		The Ring Two is a sequel to 2002's The Ring, which is a remake of Hideo Nakata's Ringu.
		The Ring Two is an "original" work, written by Ehren Kruger, and not a remake of 1999's Ringu 2.
		Much of the creepiness of The Ring is maintained here, and while Nakata manages to continue his brilliant atmospheric direction, and the acting (particularly in David Dorfman's varying Aidan) is steady, the outcome feels a little weak and calculated for shock value.
	www.worldsgreatestcritic.com /theringtwo.html (1213 words)

	The Ring review
		With its subtle and hypnotic approach to horror, its stylized esthetics and mirror effects, The Ring is an atypical film, a postmodern work that transcends a dying genre to feed itself with the obsessions and phobias of a society that's victim to media saturation.
		Based on Ringu, the adaptation of Koji Suzuki's famous novel that generated a sequel, a prequel and a series, The Ring is a psychological and daring film on the fringe of traditional horror cinema.
		The success of The Ring lies in its psychological construction of horror but also in the use of an "inoffensive" element present in each room: the television.
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/thering.html (866 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Spiral: Books: Koji Suzuki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		I haven't read the book of the original 'Ring', but I saw both japanese and US versions and I was fascinated by what the writer would do to continue a concept which scared the bejeezus out of me at the cinema.
		Koji Suzuki's attention to detail, both in the characterisations and the storyline, is what draws the reader in and puts his writing style in a league of it's own.
		The 'code' element to the novel is superior to anything by Dan Brown, because it isn't patronising or self-satisfied.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Spiral-Koji-Suzuki/dp/0007179065 (1328 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Ring: Books: Koji Suzuki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		At least, that's the hidden undercurrent to "Ring", and this is why Suzuki fills his novel with references to other epidemics.
		Koji Suzuki could easily be considered the Stephen King of Japanese horror, with several movies (and remakes) of his bestseller novels -- particularly "Ring." Yes, that one.
		Don't expect a carbon copy of the "Ring" movies: No TV apparitions, the lead is a man, and despite her beautiful female appearance, Sadako is a hermaphrodite.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Ring-Koji-Suzuki/dp/0007178859 (1926 words)

	the ringworld - suzuki koji interview
		In the Ring novel, one of the images on the so-called “cursed video” is of an infant.
		Well, when the Ring novel was published in 1991, I imagine you never thought that more than decade later it would become the number one movie in America.
		First of all, the way that Ring came about was...I think this has probably appeared in a different interview somewhere, but with Ring, it was like, At first I didn’t have the story.
	www.theringworld.com /suzuki.php (1204 words)

	The Film Asylum Review - The Ring Trilogy (Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada)
		The Ring legacy had begun and in 1999 an equally petrifying sequel called Ring 2 was released again directed by Nakata.
		The exception to this is perhaps Ring O which is a much darker affair often displaying poor contrast levels and appearing very dull in comparison to its predecessors.
		The third disk featuring Ring O is a little more juicy and holds a behind the scenes documentary, 6 deleted scenes and the original Japanese trailer.
	www.thefilmasylum.com /reviews/ringtrilogy/ringtrilogy.htm (680 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Spiral' spins suspenseful tale where thriller 'Ring' left off (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		When Koji Suzuki's horror novel Ring was released in Japan in 1991, it was a smash hit in a market where horror merely filled a niche.
		Ring gave birth to a successful Japanese film franchise, and in 2002, DreamWorks released a hit remake of Ring starring Naomi Watts.
		Ando later realizes that the numbers are a code that, when deciphered, translates to the word "ring." Thus begins his investigation into what he eventually dubs the "Ring Virus." The more Ando finds out, the more he realizes that something insidious is going on.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/reviews/2004-06-23-spiral_x.htm (455 words)

	RING (SUZUKI NOVEL) FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		''Ring'' is a horror novel by Koji Suzuki set in modern day Japan.
		The film adaptation is more popular, and was subsequently remade into an American version.
		He has a wife, Shizuka (the Vertical, Inc. English translation of the novel incorrectly renders her name as Shizu), and daughter, Yoko
	www.gwailoproject.com /Ring_(Suzuki_novel) (426 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Adapted from Koji Suzuki's successful novel, Ring became a huge phenomena in Japan and has since become the countries top grossing horror movie.
		Interestingly, Ring seems to play very differently — and to very different audiences — in Japan, than in the UK and North America.
		The closest we have come to this phenomena to date I suppose, would be the first part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but even that is full of amazing special effects and exciting spectacles - Ring relies solely on the impetus of it's narritive development and truckloads of atmosphere.
	www.horrorview.com /Ring.htm (730 words)

	The Ring Movie Review by Anthony Leong from MediaCircus.net
		In addition, "Ring" inspired the 1999 South Korean-Japanese co-production entitled "The Ring Virus", which was essentially a remake of "Ringu", and was pilfered in the recent William Malone shocker "FearDotCom", which revolved around a 'killer' web site ('you download, you die!').
		"The Ring" kicks off with Seattle journalist Rachel Keller (Watts) investigating the sudden and mysterious deaths of her niece Katie (Amber Tamblyn, seen recently on the "Evergreen" episode of UPN's "The Twilight Zone") and three of her friends.
		Though "The Ring" essentially retreads material from the 1998 Japanese film, Verbinski skillfully ratchets up the tension gradually as Rachel and Noah's investigation unfolds, while his visual style, which makes good use of gloomy Washington vistas, imparts an atmosphere of imminent doom to the proceedings.
	www.mediacircus.net /ring.html (861 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ring: Books: Koji Suzuki,Glynne Walley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Koji Suzuki is at top-notch, and you will still be surprised, even if it is a little predictable.
		Suzuki focuses on the thrills and the detective-like inquiry rather than the in-your-face horror and vividly gory description that might have detracted from the plot.
		Koji Suzuki gives the reader a slightly different and highly unique spin on the well-known films that should not be over-looked.
	www.amazon.ca /Ring-Koji-Suzuki/dp/1932234411 (2150 words)

	cityonfire.com \| Ring Virus
		When "Ring" came out in theatres, it's impact around Asia was so huge that it spawned some sequels, a prequel and even a Hollywood remake.
		This brings us to Kim Dong-Bin's "Ring Virus", the Korean version/remake of Koji Suzuki's novel ("Ring Virus" is the first-ever joint production between Korea and Japan, with each side footing 50% of the production costs.).
		One thing is certain, all of the "Ring" movies were very exaggerated when it came to the hype over it's creepiness.
	www.cityonfire.com /korean/ringvirus.html (473 words)

	DreamWorks SKG Fansite-The Ring
		Assisted by the intuitive illustrations of Aidan and the initially reluctant research of Noah, Rachel attempts to discover the significance of the cryptic tape before her time is up.
		The original "Ring", based on a novel by Kôji Suzuki, was a cult phenomenon in Japan, spawning a sequel, a prequel, and other spin-offs.
		However, the key to this Ring is Watts, who shines through the creepy atmosphere.
	www.dreamworksfansite.com /ring (336 words)

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