Editing Ring (film) (section)

==Cast==
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| footer            = [[Nanako Matsushima]] (left) who played the role as the major protagonist, journalist Reiko Asakawa and [[Hiroyuki Sanada]] (right) who played the role as Reiko's former husband and university professor, Ryūji Takayama. ''Ring'' was also Nanako Matsushima and Hiroyuki Sanada second collaboration, following their first collaboration in a 1997 TV drama ''[[Konna Koi no Hanashi]]''.
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* [[Nanako Matsushima]] as [[Reiko Asakawa]], a journalist who investigates her niece's death and finds the cursed video tape.
* [[Hiroyuki Sanada]] as [[Ryuji Takayama|Ryūji Takayama]], Reiko's former husband, a former medical student turned university professor. He has a degree of [[extrasensory perception|sixth sense]] that detects supernatural auras.
* [[Rikiya Otaka|Rikiya Ōtaka]] as [[Yoichi Asakawa|Yōichi Asakawa]], Reiko's young son who also has a sixth sense like his father.
* [[Miki Nakatani]] as Mai Takano, Ryuji's student.
* [[Yūko Takeuchi|Yuko Takeuchi]] as Tomoko Ōishi, Reiko's niece who watches the cursed video tape and is amongst its first victims.
* [[Hitomi Satō (actress)|Hitomi Sato]] as Masami Kurahashi, Tomoko's best friend.
* [[Daisuke Ban]] as Dr. Heihachiro Ikuma, Sadako's father who threw her down a well.
* [[Rie Inō]] as [[Sadako Yamamura]], a young woman with psychic powers who was thrown down a well where she died; her spirit lived on within a video tape.
* Masako as Shizuko Yamamura, Sadako's mother. She too had psychic powers but a disastrous press demonstration led to her suicide.
* [[Yōichi Numata]] as Takashi Yamamura, Sadako's uncle who runs an inn on Oshima Island.
* [[Yutaka Matsushige]] as Yoshino, a journalist associate of Reiko.
* Katsumi Muramatsu as Kōichi Asakawa, Reiko's father.