Ring: The Final Chapter: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Four high school students died of heart attack mysteriously. A reporter from Central Newspaper, Asakawa, was determined to find out the truth. He learned that all 4 students watched a video tape 2 weeks before they died, so he obtained the tape and watched it, trying to solve the mystery. However, he did not see anything unusual in the tape, which is a music video of a popular singer. Nevertheless, another man who also watched the tape 2 weeks ago died of heart attack. Asakawa was afraid that he would die after 2 weeks, so he seeked help from Takayama Ryuji, who specialized in paranormal phenomenon and seemed to have a mysterious past. After computerized digital analysis, they found out that the video was cursed and whoever saw it only had 13 days left to live

Series details

• Title: Ring: The Final Chapter
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Horror, Thriller
• Premiere date: 1999-01-07
• Final broadcast date listed: 1999-03-25
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Fuji TV
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 45 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 15859
• IMDb ID: tt0235134
• TVDB ID: 79299

Cast and credited roles

• Toshirô Yanagiba — Kazuyuki Asakawa
• Tomoya Nagase — Ryûji Takayama
• Kotomi Kyono — Akiko Yoshino
• Akiko Yada — Mai Takano
• Hitomi Kuroki — Rieko Miyashita
• Yûta Fukagawa — Yôichi Asakawa

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1999-01-07; final listed air date 1999-03-25; episode order: 12.

Source and licence

Adapted from Ring: The Final Chapter on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.