Ring: Kanzenban is a 1995 Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 that predates all other films in the Ring cycle. It is based on the book Ring

Ring (Suzuki novel)

is a Japanese horror novel by Koji Suzuki, first published in 1991, and set in modern day Japan. It was the basis for a film of the same name , and two remakes: a Korean version and an American version ....

by Koji Suzuki

Koji Suzuki

Koji Suzuki is a Japanese writer, who was born in Hamamatsu and currently lives in Tokyo. Suzuki is the author of the Ring cycle of novels, which has been adapted into a manga series. He has written several books on the subject of fatherhood...

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Plot

Newspaper reporter-turned-proofreader Kazuyuki Asakawa reluctantly enlists the help of a former contact by the name of Ryuji Takayama to break the curse of a cursed videotape.

Japan

The film aired on Fuji Television on August 11, 1995 under the title "Ring". This version never had a commercial release.

The film was released on VHS

VHS

The Video Home System is a consumer-level analog recording videocassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan ....

 on November 24, 1995, and on LaserDisc

Laserdisc

LaserDisc was a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium. Initially licensed, sold, and marketed as MCA DiscoVision in North America in 1978, the technology was previously referred to interally as Optical Videodisc System, Reflective Optical Videodisc, Laser Optical...

on July 26, 1996, under the title Ring: Kanzenban (literally: Ring: The Complete Edition). This version contained more nudity and extra short scenes.