Who plays the role of Sadako?
Orie Izuno, a butoh dancer. [presumably born in 1959, butoh is a dance of rebellion against the cultural establishment and the social system. Dancers perform with their bodies smeared all over, twist their feet and bodies, and make chilling eye-grimaces la Sadako!] At the end of Ring, Sadako bursts out of the TV and wriggles towards Ryuji. It’s a very frightening scene, but at the same time you make us feel all the pain and wretchedness of Sadako… Yes, you’re right, there is sadness in this scene, and it comes from Sadako’s suffering and anger. That’s what I wanted to convey to the spectators in those shots, the fact that she suffered so much, her fear and anger. In Japan, Ring was double-billed with Rasen, which is based on the second Ring book. Then one year later, you made Ring 2. That’s quite strange… It seemed to us also very strange when we were offered to make Ring 2. I think the president of the Kadokawa company, which both publishes the Ring books and produces the films, d
