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Twenty years after he terrified us all with the original Ring, director Hideo Nakata is back and he’s bringing his franchise icon along with him in Sadako, a brand new Ring film that’s set to premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival later this month. The film is already in Japanese theaters, but here’s the latest trailer. Moshi Moshi Nippon shared plot details: “The film will star Elaiza Ikeda as the main character Mayu Akigawa, a psychology counselor who gets involved in an incident with Yusuke Ishida, played by Takashi Tsukamoto, who will try to fix it. Hiroya Shimizu will play the part of Mayu’s younger brother Kazuma Akigawa who becomes a YouTuber to try and awaken Sadako’s curse. Himeka Himejima will play Jinko, a mysterious girl who lost her memory and is taken in at the hospital Mayu works at. Renn Kiriyama will play Mayu’s colleague Minori Fujii.” The original Japanese film franchise began with Hideo Nakata’s Ring back in 1998, an adaptation of Koji Suzuki’s tale of a cursed video and a creepy girl in
