The Ring (franchise)

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Ring
Created by	Koji Suzuki
Original work	Ring (1991)
Owners	Kadokawa Corporation (most media); Paramount Pictures (American films)
Years	1991-present
Print publications
Novel(s)	Ring (1991); Spiral (1995); Loop (1998); Birthday (1999); S (2012); Tide (2013);
Comics	Ring (1996); Ring – Volume 1 (1999); Ring – Volume 2 (1999); Ring 2 (1999); Spiral (1999); Birthday (1999); Ring 0: Birthday (2000); Sadako-san and Sadako-chan (2019); Sadako at the End of the World (2020);
Films and television
Film(s)	Ring (1995); Ring (1998); Spiral (1998); Ring 2 (1999); The Ring Virus (1999); Ring 0: Birthday (2000); The Ring (2002); The Ring Two (2005); Sadako 3D (2012); Sadako 3D 2 (2013); Sadako vs. Kayako (2016); Rings (2017); Sadako (2019); Sadako DX (2022);
Short film(s)	Rings (2005)
Television series	Ring: The Final Chapter (1999); Spiral (1999);
Games
Video game(s)	The Ring: Terror's Realm (2000); Ring: Infinity (2000);
Audio
Radio program(s)	Ring (1996); Birthday (2000); Ring (2015);
Soundtrack(s)	Ring / Rasen (1998); Ring 2 (1999); Ring: The Final Chapter (1999); The Ring Virus (1999); Rasen (1999); Ring 0: Birthday (2000); The Ring / The Ring Two (2005); Rings (2017);

Ring (Japanese: リング, romanized: Ringu), also known as The Ring, is a media franchise, based on the novel series of the same name written by Koji Suzuki. The franchise includes eight Japanese films, two television series, eight manga adaptations, three English-language American film remakes, a Korean film remake, and two video games: The Ring: Terror's Realm and Ring: Infinity (both 2000). While most installments of the franchise are dramatic supernatural horror fiction, other genres are also explored with the novel Loop (1998) being science fiction-focused, and the manga series Sadako-san and Sadako-chan (2019) and Sadako at the End of the World (2020) and feature film Sadako DX (2022) being comedy-focused.

The Ring films revolve around a cursed video tape; whoever watches the tape dies seven days later, unless the tape is copied and shown to another person, who then must repeat the same process. The video tape was created by a psychic, Sadako Yamamura, who was murdered by her adoptive father and thrown into a well. After her supposed death, she returned as a ghostly malicious serial killer, killing anyone who fails to copy and then send the video tape to someone else under a seven-day deadline (constricted to a two-day deadline in Sadako vs. Kayako and a one-day deadline in Sadako DX).