Original language:
Japanese Translated from: Japanese
Authors: Suzuki, Koji
Translated by: Jėrinaitė, Jurgita
ISBN: 9955-97-253-X
Published in: Kaunas
Published on: 2005
Publisher: Obuolys
“The Steven King of Japan” Koji Suzuki created something that American horror writers can be jealous of. He wrote a book „The Ring“ which was translated to Lithuanian in 2005. This book shocked and amazed whole wide world with its originality, intensity and wild imagination. „The Ring“ inspired cultural horror phenomenon: three very popular sequels („Spiral“, “Loop”, “Birthday”), five movies in Japan (“Ringu”, Ringu 2”, “Ringu 0: Bâsudei”, “Sadako”, “Sadako 2”) two – in the USA (“The Ring”, “The Ring 2”) . Also, many TV shows, comic books and computer games were created because of this very special cycle.
The book tells a story about a mysterious, unnamed video tape that somehow appeared in four teenager’s hands. Curiosity immediately took its course and four of them saw a little bit creepy video with no actual content – just a bunch of frames. After seven days all four of died of an unknown cause. All death certificates wrote that they died of a heart attack. Young journalist with his friend which was a professor in university heard about this unexplainable event and decided to investigate it. The worst part is, both of them also watched the tape. The question appears: Will their destiny be as unfortunate as those, who died? Suddenly time becomes very valuable.
„The Ring“– is a breathtaking detective that is loved not only by people who saw the movies but by those who don‘t even have a clue about this amazing horrifying phenomenon. The main reason why – “Ringu” has three very interesting, independent sequels that approach really horrifying hardly believable but real problems: which deadly viruses and diseases, born by human hatred, can destroy civilization in a blink of an eye.
Koji Suzuki was born in 1957 in Hamamatsu and currently lives in Tokyo. He finished French philology at Keio university in Japan. After writer finished his studies he searched for a job but never found one that would fit his personality. Days passed and finally Koji decided to become a nanny to his two little girls. From that day he knew that he chose correctly and after a few months Koji started to write. In 1990 Koji Suzuki was awarded with a main fantasy literature award because of his “The Ring: Tetralogy” cycle. It inspired many directors to create television series, comic books, movies and computer games. Besides that, Koji has written several books about parenthood problems in Japan. Writer temperamentally criticizes Japanese fathers who work hard and don’t spend enough time with their children.