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Released
1999 · FILM

Ring 2

Mai Takano uncovers a deadly cursed videotape linked to her boyfriend's death, and as his son begins to display terrifying psychic powers, she races against time to stop the vengeful spirit of Sadako before it claims more lives.

Directed by
Runtime
95 min
Language
JA
HorrorMysterySci-Fi

Synopsis

Mai Takano begins investigating the mysterious death of her boyfriend and discovers a cursed videotape featuring the spirit of a girl named Sadako, which is said to kill anyone who watches it exactly one week later. As her boyfriend's son, Yoichi, begins to exhibit psychic abilities similar to Sadako, Takano must find a way to protect both the boy and herself from becoming the next victims.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Nobuyuki TakahashiShot by Hideo YamamotoScored by Kenji KawaiDesigned by Iwao Saito

Box Office

1999 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$31.4M

Budget$6.0M
Worldwide gross$31.4M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Ring 2de
  • Ring 2en

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