Japanese TV: Wed June 4 2008 - Ring 0

This week our old friend SBS serves up Japanese horror. Ring 0: Birthday stars Yukie Nakama of Gokusen fame and the face plastered across all sorts of billboards in Japan.

The third installment in the Ring film trilogy, this prequel reveals how the evil spirit Sadako got into the well thirty years prior to causing the deaths in the other films of the series.

This film provides the background story of how Sadako later became the vengeful, murdering spirit. It begins with Sadako as a shy, withdrawn university student, who becomes involved with a drama club. Journalist Miyaji investigates Sadako’s spiritualist mother, Shizuko, and arrives on campus to confront Sadako just when a series of mysterious deaths sweep through the drama club.

Sounds like fun.

Ring 0: Birthday

When: SBS from 12:25 am Thursday June 5 2008 (i.e. late Wednesday night)