In the Philippines, the film was given a limited release as The Spiral on February 25, 2004. Spiral was released theatrically in Japan on Januwhere it was distributed by Toho. Just as Ryūji leaves, he tells Andō: "Many years will pass before our world will be at peace". In the end, Andō brings Takayama and his son back to life with help from Sadako. Sadako promises to help resurrect Andō's son in exchange for his help. Yoshino, Andō's friend Miyashita and many others were not killed by a virus or the video, but rather Reiko's diary. He then learns that Takayama was not helping Andō stop Sadako – instead, he was helping Sadako. Andō goes back to work and sees "Mai" there and finds out that she is none other than Sadako Yamamura, reborn and claiming to be "perfectly dual-gendered". He starts to feel that the story was just a myth and he is relieved when Mai turns up, but is shocked to find out that she has been found dead, having given birth with no sign of a baby. Meanwhile, Mai Takano goes missing and Andō apparently survives the curse. He discovers that the virus that killed Yoshino was different from the one that killed the father and son. He understands and decides to try to find out more about the virus that killed Takayama and his son. Andō asks Mai if she will be there with him when he dies, but Mai tells him that she is too scared. He then confides in Mai about his son's death, and they end up sleeping together. However, Yoshino still dies.Īndō decides to destroy the videotapes and make sure that he will be the video's last victim. Andō believes that Yoshino had watched the video, but he denies it, saying that he was too scared to. He admits that he wishes that he had never been involved in Reiko's business. When Andō tells Mai Takano what he has done, she is shocked and cannot understand why, since she felt from the start that it was the video that killed Takayama and his family. Yoshino shows Andō both the tape and the diary. Reiko believed that creating a copy would break the curse, but Yōichi died a week after watching the tape, just as his father had. While Reiko had broken the curse, Ryūji died a week after watching the tape. She and Ryūji had been researching the cursed videotape. Yoshino lets Andō in on a secret: he has the wife's diary. Searching for the truth about why Ryūji and Yōichi died from the virus while Reiko did not leads him to her boss Yoshino. With the help of Takayama's student, Mai Takano, Andō finds out more about Ryūji's past as well as the mysterious young woman, Sadako Yamamura. After watching the tape, strange things begin to happen around him, and he soon discovers that the tape's restless spirit has different plans in store for him. Despondent over the death of his own child, and believing that he is being guided by his rival's ghost, Andō decides to see the video for himself. Rumor has it that anyone who watches the video will die exactly one week later. Andō soon learns of a mysterious cursed videotape, haunted by the spirit of a murdered young woman. After he finds a cryptic note in Takayama's stomach, Reiko and Yōichi also turn up dead. Takahashi and Nakata were later recruited to produce another sequel, Ring 2, which replaced Spiral as the sequel to Ring, not based on Suzuki's works, and thus ultimately ignores the story of Spiral.įollowing the events of Ring, the body of Ryūji Takayama, former husband of Reiko Asakawa and father of Yōichi Asakawa, is examined by his friend and rival, pathologist Mitsuo Andō. After their release, Ring became an enormous success while Spiral floundered, quickly becoming the "forgotten sequel". The two films shared a few cast members and had the same production team, but different directors and screenwriters Spiral was written and directed by Jōji Iida whereas Ring was written by Hiroshi Takahashi and directed by Hideo Nakata. The studio hoped this would increase revenues, because the Ring story was already a successful novel and television film. Ring and its sequel Spiral were released in Japan at the same time. It is titled The Spiral (stylized as the Spiral) in English on the Japanese poster and video packaging, and it was previously released in North America as Rasen (a transliteration of the Japanese title) and in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Philippines as The Spiral. It is directed by Jōji Iida and is based on the novel of the same title by Koji Suzuki.
Spiral ( らせん, Rasen) is a 1998 Japanese film.
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