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Sadako Yamamura (山村 貞子, Yamamura Sadako) is the central character and antagonist of Koji Suzuki's Ring Trilogy novels, along with the numerous film and television adaptations of the books. Her name combines the Japanese words for "chaste" (sada) and "child" (ko). Sadako's fictional history alternates between continuities, but all involve her possessing supernatural abilities that cause a number of unfortunate events for her, leading to Sadako being thrown down and imprisoned in a well. She uses her powers of nensha to create a cursed video tape that will kill whoever watches it exactly one week after viewing it unless the tape is copied and shown to another person, who then must repeat the same process.Sadako has been played by a number of actresses in the media, including Rie Inō in Ring and Ring 2, Hinako Saeki in the retconned Rasen, Yukie Nakama in prequel Ring 0: Birthday as the protagonist, Ayane Miura in Ring: Kanzenban, Tae Kimura in Ring: The Final Chapter and Rasen, and Ai Hashimoto in Sadako 3D. Foreign adaptations featured Bae Doona in the South Korean film The Ring Virus, Daveigh Chase as Samara Morgan in the American films The Ring, and Kelly Stables in The Ring Two.
Biography
Sadako étant un personnage de fiction apparaissant dans plusieurs œuvres, son histoire varie d'une œuvre à l'autre. On ne peut donc rédiger une seule et unique biographie cohérente, car il faut tenir compte de ces variations. Ainsi, dans le roman original, Sadako est hermaphrodite, alors que les adaptations cinématographiques en ont fait une jeune femme.Connue au Japon, on peut voir dans les mangas et les animes de nombreuses références à ce personnage (Par exemple, dans "Kimi ni Todoke", un anime de type Shōjo).
Toujours vêtue d'une robe de nuit blanche, les cheveux devant le visage, elle est définie comme un personnage effrayant de film d'horreur.
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Filmography of Sadako Yamamura (5 films)
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Sadako 3D (2012)
Genres Horror
Actors Satomi Ishihara, Koji Seto, Yusuke Yamamoto, Ai Hashimoto, Shota Sometani, Yuna Taira
Rating37%
A mysterious, white-clad man drops a long-haired woman into a well. The well is full of women, all with long hair, all dressed in night-dresses.
Ring 0 (2000)
, 1h39Directed by Norio Tsuruta
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Yukie Nakama, Kumiko Asō, Yoshiko Tanaka, Seiichi Tanabe, Atsuko Takahata, Mahito Ōba
Rating60%
Thirty years before the events of Ring, Akiko Miyaji, a reporter whose fiancé and fellow reporter was killed during Shizuko Yamamura's publicized ESP demonstration years before, interviews Sudo, an elementary school principal and a former teacher of Shizuko's daughter, Sadako, attempting to gain information and evidence that Sadako inherited her mother's nensha powers. Meanwhile, a 19-year-old Sadako joins an acting troupe as an understudy as a therapy to her nightmares suggested by her doctor. Sadako has natural beauty and charisma for the play, infuriating her senior, Aiko Hazuki, whose relationship with the troupe director, Yusaku Shigemori, sours due to the latter's newfound favor for the young trainee. Aiko is later found murdered by a figure in white, thus Sadako takes her place for the upcoming play as the lead character. Sadako attracts and reciprocates the attention of the troupe sound director, Hiroshi Toyama, much to the disappointment of costume designer and Toyama's girlfriend, Etsuko Tachihara. While praised by Shigemori and Toyama, other troupe members grow to distrust and fear Sadako, as they suspect that she is the one who caused Aiko's death and other supernatural occurrences, including strange dreams pertaining to a well and an apparition of a girl in white with long hair very similar to Sadako.
Ring 2 (1999)
, 1h32Directed by Hideo Nakata
Origin Japon
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Miki Nakatani, Kyōko Fukada, Masahiro Motoki, Nanako Matsushima, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Hiroyuki Sanada
Rating58%
While inspecting the corpse of Sadako Yamamura, the forensic experts note evidence that Sadako has died only a year or two ago, meaning that she was still alive in the sealed well for almost thirty years. They later reconstruct her body and send it to Takaishi Yamamura (Yoichi Numata), Sadako's uncle, who takes it on his boat and later casts it into the bottom of the ocean.
Ring (1998)
, 1h36Directed by Hideo Nakata
Origin Japon
Genres Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, Miki Nakatani, Rikiya Otaka, Yoichi Numata, Yūko Takeuchi
Rating71%
Two teenagers, Masami (Hitomi Satō) and Tomoko (Yūko Takeuchi), talk about a videotape recorded by a boy in Izu which is fabled to bear a curse that kills the viewer seven days after watching. Tomoko reveals that a week ago, she and three of her friends watched a weird tape and received a call after watching. Tomoko is killed by an unseen force as Masami watches, horrified.
Ring (1995)
Genres Horror
Actors Ayane Miura, Yoshio Harada, Katsunori Takahashi, Tomorowo Taguchi
Rating62%
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.