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This article is about the 1998 Japanese horror film. For other films and definitions, see Spiral (disambiguation)

1998 Japanese film

Spiral (らせん, 🍉 Rasen) is a 1998 Japanese supernatural horror world cinema film. It is a sequel to the 1998 film Ring. It 🍉 is directed by Jōji Iida and is based on the novel of the same title by Koji Suzuki. It is 🍉 titled The Spiral (stylized as the Spiral) in English on the Japanese poster and video packaging, and it was previously 🍉 released in North America as Rasen (a transliteration of the Japanese title) and in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the 🍉 Philippines as The Spiral.[2]

Ring and its sequel Spiral were released in Japan at the same time. The studio hoped this 🍉 would increase revenues, because the Ring story was already a successful novel and television film. The two films shared a 🍉 few cast members and had the same production team, but different directors and screenwriters; Spiral was written and directed by 🍉 Jōji Iida whereas Ring was written by Hiroshi Takahashi and directed by Hideo Nakata. After their release, Ring became an 🍉 enormous success while Spiral floundered, quickly becoming the "forgotten sequel".

Takahashi and Nakata were later recruited to produce another sequel, Ring 🍉 2, which replaced Spiral as the sequel to Ring, not based on Suzuki's works, and thus ultimately ignores the story 🍉 of Spiral.

Plot [ edit ]

Following the events of Ring, the body of Ryūji Takayama, former husband of Reiko Asakawa and 🍉 father of Yōichi Asakawa, is examined by his friend and rival, pathologist Mitsuo Andō. After he finds a cryptic note 🍉 in Takayama's stomach, Reiko and Yōichi also turn up dead. Andō soon learns of a mysterious cursed videotape, haunted by 🍉 the spirit of a murdered young woman. Rumor has it that anyone who watches the video will die exactly one 🍉 week later. Despondent over the death of his own child, and believing that he is being guided by his rival's 🍉 ghost, Andō decides to see the video for himself. After watching the tape, strange things begin to happen around him, 🍉 and he soon discovers that the tape's restless spirit has different plans in store for him.

With the help of Takayama's 🍉 student, Mai Takano, Andō finds out more about Ryūji's past as well as the mysterious young woman, Sadako Yamamura. Searching 🍉 for the truth about why Ryūji and Yōichi died from the virus while Reiko did not leads him to her 🍉 boss Yoshino. Yoshino lets Andō in on a secret: he has the wife's diary. She and Ryūji had been researching 🍉 the cursed videotape. While Reiko had broken the curse, Ryūji died a week after watching the tape. Reiko believed that 🍉 creating a copy would break the curse, but Yōichi died a week after watching the tape, just as his father 🍉 had. Yoshino shows Andō both the tape and the diary.

When Andō tells Mai Takano what he has done, she is 🍉 shocked and cannot understand why, since she felt from the start that it was the video that killed Takayama and 🍉 his family. As they are talking, Yoshino calls Andō. He admits that he wishes that he had never been involved 🍉 in Reiko's business. Andō believes that Yoshino had watched the video, but he denies it, saying that he was too 🍉 scared to. However, Yoshino still dies.

Andō decides to destroy the videotapes and make sure that he will be the video's 🍉 last victim. He then confides in Mai about his son's death, and they end up sleeping together. Andō asks Mai 🍉 if she will be there with him when he dies, but Mai tells him that she is too scared. He 🍉 understands and decides to try to find out more about the virus that killed Takayama and his son. He discovers 🍉 that the virus that killed Yoshino was different from the one that killed the father and son. Andō asks for 🍉 tests to be run on him.

Meanwhile, Mai Takano goes missing and Andō apparently survives the curse. He starts to feel 🍉 that the story was just a myth and he is relieved when Mai turns up, but is shocked to find 🍉 out that she has been found dead, having given birth with no sign of a baby. Andō goes back to 🍉 work and sees "Mai" there and finds out that she is none other than Sadako Yamamura, reborn and claiming to 🍉 be "perfectly dual-gendered". He then learns that Takayama was not helping Andō stop Sadako – instead, he was helping Sadako. 🍉 Yoshino, Andō's friend Miyashita and many others were not killed by a virus or the video, but rather Reiko's diary. 🍉 Sadako promises to help resurrect Andō's son in exchange for his help.

In the end, Andō brings Takayama and his son 🍉 back to life with help from Sadako. Just as Ryūji leaves, he tells Andō: "Many years will pass before our 🍉 world will be at peace".

Cast [ edit ]

Release [ edit ]

Spiral was released theatrically in Japan on January 31, 1998 🍉 where it was distributed by Toho. In the Philippines, the film was given a limited release as The Spiral on 🍉 February 25, 2004.[3]

The film was released directly to DVD by DreamWorks in the United States on August 23, 2005, under 🍉 the transliterated title Rasen.

It was released in high definition on Blu-ray Disc and video on demand in the United States, 🍉 Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland by Arrow Films under their Arrow Video imprint, under the title Spiral.[2] Spiral was 🍉 also included in Arrow Video's Ring Collection Blu-ray box set.[4]

Reception [ edit ]

Den of Geek called the film "neither as 🍉 poor as its reputation suggests or a long lost gem",[5] while Collider called it a "gonzo sequel, one that doesn't 🍉 hold itself together as well as its predecessor, it is a movie that should not be forgotten".[6]