One night in Tokyo, four healthy teenagers die simultaneously of heart failure. A journalist, Asakawa, is drawn to the inexplicable case and starts to investigate, only to discover that the four watched a videotape together exactly one week before dying. When the journalist watches the tape himself, and is warned that he too has only one week to live unless he can decipher the tape's hidden message, his work to solve the mystery takes on a deadly urgency. Chillingly told and shrewdly intelligent, Ring is a masterful mystery and a sensuously literary post-modern trip that will simultaneously horrify and delight all fans of the film, which has grossed [pound]6 million in the UK alone since its opening weekend.