Complete (J-Drama) Ringu

Complete (J-Drama) Ringu

Season 1

Title: リング ～最終章～

Title (romaji): Ringu: Saishûshô

Also known as: Ring: Saishusho

Chinese name: 午夜兇鈴 ～最終章～

Tagline: 愛は恐怖で試される。

Genre: Mystery, drama, suspense

Episodes: 12

Broadcast network: Fuji TV

Broadcast period: 1999, January 07 to 1999, March 25

Air time: Thursday 22:00

Theme song: Stars by Original Love

Synopsis

Four high school students died of heart attack mysteriously. A reporter from Central Newspaper, Asakawa, was determined to find out the truth. He learned that all 4 students watched a video tape 2 weeks before they died, so he obtained the tape and watched it, trying to solve the mystery. However, he did not see anything unusual in the tape, which is a music video of a popular singer. Nevertheless, another man who also watched the tape 2 weeks ago died of heart attack. Asakawa was afraid that he would die after 2 weeks, so he seeked help from Takayama Ryuji, who specialized in paranormal phenomenon and seemed to have a mysterious past. After computerized digital analysis, they found out that the video was cursed and whoever saw it only had 13 days left to live...

Cast

Yanagiba Toshiro as Asakawa Kazuyuki

Nagase Tomoya as Takayama Ryuji

Kuroki Hitomi as Miyashita Rieko

Kyono Kotomi as Yoshino Akiko

Yamamoto Kei as Nagao Joutaro

Yada Akiko as Takano Mai

Fukugawa Yuta (深川雄太) as Asakawa Yoichi

Kato Takayuki as Kawamura Ken

Watanabe Tetsu as Officer Kashiwada

Kimura Tae as Yamamura Shizuko / Sadako

Uesugi Shogo (上杉祥三) as Dr. Ikuma Heihachiro

Sasaki Sumie Dr. Ikuma Fujin

Okamoto Aya as Ooishi Tomoko

Suzuki Sawa as Yagi Kumiko

Ikeuchi Mansaku as Abe

Kawarazaki Kenzo as Moriyama Shuhei

Matsuzaki Nao (松崎ナオ) as Matsuzaki Nao

Takamoku Yoshihiko (高杢禎彦) as Manager Yagi

Yamamoto Toshihiko as Tomoko's father

Kohinata Fumiyo as Professor Kaneda

Oonishi Tamae

Nagano Satomi (ep1-2)

Higata Tomoka

Watanabe Kenkichi

Hirano Takahiro

Matsuzawa Shigeo

Yamamoto Yuuko

Konoshima Aiko

Fujita Munehisa

Noguchi Fumie

Inagaki Shozo

Akabane Hideyuki

Shindo Miyuki

Kutomi Tadaharu

Kobayashi Katsuya

Hirooka Yuriko

Ichikawa Chieko

Ozawa Rie

Nakamura Shinshou

Niiyama Chiharu

Tsukayama Masane

Inomata Yuki

Takarai Rie

Takakura Kaori

Yamazaki Yuta

Kuranuki Masahiro

Season 2

Title: らせん

Title (romaji): Rasen

Also known as: Spiral

Chinese name: 午夜凶铃之螺旋

Tagline: あなたも貞子から逃げられない。

Genre: Mystery, suspense

Episodes: 13

Broadcast network: Fuji TV

Broadcast period: 1999, July 01 to 1999, September 23

Air time: Thursday 22:00

Theme song: Dare ga Tame ni Kane wa Naru by Rough Laugh

Synopsis

The sequel to the hit drama "Ring: The Final Chapter". This time, Sadako leaves the well, and she finds another way to destroy the world, a method that would destroy the world quicker than the video. Can Ando (Kishitani Goro) and Natsumi (Yoshimoto Takami) find a way to save the world from total destruction?

Cast

Kishitani Goro as Ando Mitsuo
Yoshimoto Takami as Aihara Natsumi
Naitou Takashi as Rikuta Hiroshi
Tanabe Seiichi as Ota Kyosuke / Higashi Kenichi
Junna Risa as Ando Miwako
Kudo Masaya (工藤雅哉) as Ando Takanori
Yada Akiko as Takano Mai
Kimura Tae as Yamamura Sadako
Nomura Yuka as Nishijima Kumiko
Sudo Risa as Nishijima Misaki
Tonesaku Toshihide as Asano Daisuke
Masu Takeshi as Kawai Toru
Okouchi Hiroshi as Kasahara Tsutomu
Oikawa Mai (及川麻衣) as Takamura Noriko
Toida Keisuke (問田憲輔) as Sugisaki Takeo
Komoto Masahiro as Miyazaki Keisuke
Kageyama Go (陰山泰) as Imanishi
Enjoji Aya as Imanishi's wife
Oshima Yuko (大島優子) as Ami / Satomi
Azusa Mayuko
Yazawa Kouji