Editing Ring (film) (section)

==Production==
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After the moderate success of the 1991 novel [[Ring (Suzuki novel)|''Ring'']] by [[Koji Suzuki (writer)|Koji Suzuki]], [[Kadokawa Shoten]] decided to adapt it into a motion picture.

Screenwriter Hiroshi Takahashi and director [[Hideo Nakata]] collaborated to work on the script after reading Suzuki's novel and watching [[Fuji Television]]'s [[Ring (1995 film)|1995 made-for-TV film]], directed by Chisui Takigawa.<ref name=autogenerated2>Meikle, Dennis (2005), ''The Ring Companion'' (London: Titan Books).</ref> The broadcast version of the 1995 film was re-edited and released on home video under a new title, ''Ring: Kanzenban'' ({{lit}} "Ring: The Complete Edition";<ref name=autogenerated2 /> Nakata did not state which version of it he and Takahashi watched.

In their film script, Takashi and Nakata changed the protagonist's gender (from male to female), name (from Kazuyuki Asakawa to Reiko Asakawa), marital status (from married to divorced) and child's gender and name (from daughter Yoko to son Yoichi).<ref name=autogenerated2 />

With the budget of US$1.5 million, the entire production took nine months and one week. According to director Nakata, the script and pre-production process took three or four months, shooting five weeks and post-production four months.<ref name="nakatainterview">{{cite web|url=https://www.horschamp.qc.ca/new_offscreen/nakata.html|title=The "Ring" Master: Interview with Hideo Nakata}}</ref>

The special effects on the cursed video tape and some parts in the film were shot on a 35 mm film which was passed on to a laboratory in which a computer added a [[Film grain|"grainy" effect]].<ref name="nakatainterview" /> Extended visual effects were used in the scene in which the ghost of Sadako Yamamura climbs out of the television. First, they shot the [[kabuki]] actress [[Rie Inō]] walking backwards in a jerky, exaggerated motion. They then played the film in reverse to portray an unnatural-looking walk for Sadako now known in pop culture as "the creepy japanese ghost girl walk" as described by one of the editors friends.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0178868/trivia|title=Ringu (1998)|via=www.imdb.com}}</ref>