March In 2012

Nakata’s Ringgu, which in its opening ‘teenager at home’ death sequence, technophobia and female investigative journalist as central character.” (Ruth Goldberg, 2005). At the beginning of Ringgu, an urban legend has begun to spread among the teenage population of Tokyo during the late summer of 1997. The legend concerns a mysterious video cassette, the mere playing of which dooms the viewer to certain death. Those people who watch the video immediately thereafter receive a telephone call informing them that they have but one week to live. Each person who died in “Ringgu” can readily by infer from the terror-stricken expressions on their dead faces: their heart have stopped beating from sheer fright. What’s more each of the dead would receive a call as a death notice, the telephone ring come to be the terrorist signal through the movie. As the representative horror cinema in Japan, it contains almost all of the factors and characteristics called as " Japanese style", it fully deserved as the study case in my work. I find a common  phenomenon in this typical film, the ghost always turns up  in a unexpected situation without any dialogue or sound, the " suddenly" moment should be the most effective way to shock the audiences heart. 

Bibliography: 


1. 1.      Richard J. Hand (2005), “JAPANESE HORROR CINEMA: Aesthetics of Cruelty: Traditional Japanese Theatre and the Horror Film”, Edinburgh University Press Ltd.