There’s Now a Sadako Movie & It Involves YouTube Instead of a VHS Tape

When I got handed this topic, I searched up “What is Sadako” to find out why this phenomenon is so famous that a “Sadako Movie” is supposed to be understood immediately.

It turns out Sadako wasn’t a phenomenon. It took me a few heart-wrenching articles on Sadako Sasaki, a girl who succumbed to leukaemia after being exposed to the radiation from the Hiroshima atomic bomb, to realise I was on the wrong track.

After mucking around the Internet some more and flailing down many wrong rabbit trails, I finally found the person I’m supposed to be writing about.

Mmm, sexy.

Meet Sadako Yamamura, the Girl from The Ring

How many of you are calling me an uncultured swine for not recognising your beloved immediately?

Sadako Yamamura is the antagonist from the original Ring novels as well as the Japanese Ring film franchise. She’s not actually from the Ring that a lot of people would be thinking about.

That’s Samara, the crawler who lives in wells on screen. She’s in the American version of the Ring and she was modelled after Sadako.

Also sexy.

Anyway, the Ring in all versions has a cursed VHS tape.

The tape is famous for the fact that watching it kills the viewer in 7 days, in which a call (which “rings”, geddit?) will tell you about your impending death.

However, if you let someone else watch the tape, you’ll be spared a gruesome death.

That’s right, we’re looking at the OG chain messages.

Modern-day chain messages will put you in the mercy of a 7-year-old with no eyes or something.

But hey: do you even know what a VHS tape is? And a phone that rings?

So…

Sadako’s on the Internet

It’s hard to talk about it in detail since the new movie, Sadako, isn’t out yet, but from what I gather, this YouTuber was actively trying to awaken Sadako, you know… for the views, and he succeeded by accident.

People are saying that Sadako picked the new medium because the world is changing, and we all need to upgrade ourselves to stay relevant.

But even if she’s now tech-savvy, it sounds to me like she was minding her own business but got pissed because some idiot doesn’t know what privacy means.

This is affirmed by the fact that the movie posters say “撮るな” (“toru na” according to the net) and it’s supposed to mean “don’t take a photo of me”.

In addition, posters were put up under Shinjuku Station and Hankyu Umeda Station a while ago, and something was supposed to happen if you took a photo of it with your flash switched on.

Too bad they aren’t in Singapore because that’s amazing.

Anyway, here is the official synopsis and the trailer

You can decide if she’s embracing Youtube as a medium to spread on her own initiative or not.

A group of people must find out how to stop the newborn deadly curse, which has born and gone viral after a Youtuber accidentally captured a vengeful ghost on camera.

And another little promotional clip:

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— 映画『貞子』公式 (@sadako3d) January 17, 2019

Yes, that’s Sadako’s Twitter account. Give her some love!

For your info, the movie’s now out in cinema. You know what to expect on Monday because #MovieMonday