Sadako vs. Kayako
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| 貞子 vs. 伽椰子 | |
| Directed by | Kōji Shiraishi |
| Written by | Kōji Shiraishi |
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Ring Trilogy and Ju-On by Koji Suzuki and Takashi Shimizu |
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Mizuki Yamamoto Tina Tamashiro |
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| Distributed by | NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan |
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98 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Box office | $8,385,267 |
Sadako vs. Kayako (貞子 vs. 伽椰子?) is a 2016 Japanese supernatural horror film directed by Kōji Shiraishi. It is a crossover of the Ju-on and the Ring series of horror films. The film was first teased as an April Fools' joke on April 1, 2015, but was later confirmed on December 10, 2015 to be a real production. It was released on June 18, 2016 in Japan, with a North American release on January 26, 2017 on streaming site Shudder.
A social worker visits the residence of a woman only to find her dead in front of her television set, clutching a TV cord covered in long black hair. As a tape in the video player starts, Sadako Yamamura manifests in the room and marks the social worker watching the footage.
The video player is later bought by university students Yuri Kurahashi (Mizuki Yamamoto) and Natsumi Ueno (Aimi Satsukawa), who want to use it to burn a copy of another tape onto a DVD. When handling the device, Yuri's hand briefly became entangled in black hair though she dismissed the incident and ominous sign. When they find the cursed video tape in the video player, a curious Yuri plays it despite Natsumi’s protests. Yuri is then distracted by her phone so Natsumi ends up watching the footage and receives a phone call, hearing nothing but high pitch ringing. She then witnesses an apparition of Sadako, thus marking her. The girls return to the shop where they bought the video player, only to learn that a part-time worker there had just died after watching the same video tape two days prior. The shop owners also reveal that the video player had come from a social worker, who after watching the video two days before, was found with a knife skewed through her throat.
The girls go to Morishige (Masahiro Komoto), their professor and an author on urban legends, for help. Yuri gives him the tape which he watches to test its authenticity. After receiving the phone call, Morishige immediately makes a DVD copy of the tape and grows ecstatic that he has found the real video, thus confirming the girls’ fears that Natsumi will be killed by the curse in less than a day. Yuri brings up a passage in Morishige’s book stating that the curse can skip a person if they show the tape to someone else. Morishige however, says it will not work in Natsumi’s case because Yuri handed the tape to him. He later takes the girls to a temple in hopes the priestess can tell them more about Sadako and perform an exorcism. Sadako later possesses Natsumi and proceeds to kill Morishige and the priestess for interfering, thus making the ritual fail. In her dying breath, the priestess tells the girls that a man with psychic powers named Keizo Tokiwa was on his way to help them.
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