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Ring
1998
· Movie
· 96 min
B
MEANRANK
76/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1183
- IMDb #1745
- Rotten Tomatoes #599
- Letterboxd #1712
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #135
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1556
Every rating
70–98
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 70, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 98. Critics average 98, everyone else 73.
See the most agreed on films →A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
Details
- Director
- Hideo Nakata
- Writer
- Hiroshi Takahashi
- Released
- 31 January 1998
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $1.2M
- Box office
- $19.4M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 1 →1 win from 1 nomination across 1 ceremony
| Sitges Film Festival Best Feature-Length Film award 1999 | Sitges Film Festival Best Feature-Length Film award | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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Sitges Film Festival Best Feature-Length Film award
1 nomination, 1 won
| Sitges Film Festival Best Feature-Length Film award | Winner |