AKA
リング～最終章～
The Ring
Ring: the Final Chapter

Summary
Four high school students died of heart attack mysteriously. A reporter from Central Newspaper, Asakawa, was determined to find out the truth. He learned that all 4 students watched a video tape 2 weeks before they died, so he obtained the tape and watched it, trying to solve the mystery.

However, he did not see anything unusal in the tape, which is a music video of a popular singer. Nevertheless, another man who also watched the tape 2 weeks ago died of heart attack. Asakawa was afraid that he would die after 2 weeks, so he seeked help from Takayama Ryuji, who specialized in paranormal phenomenon and seemed to have a mysterious past.

After computerized digital analysis, they found out that the video was cursed and whoever saw it only had 13 days left to live...

Cast
Asakawa Kazuyuki: Yanagiba Toshirou.
Takayama Ryuji: Nagase Tomoya.
Takano Mai: Yada Akiko.
Yoshino: Kyono Kotomi.
Ikuma Sadako: Kimura Tae.

Editorial note
This television series is based on the TV pilot, Ring: Kanzenban** [aka The Cursed Videotape] (1995), and was screened on TV before the first Ring movie (1998) was released.

**kanzenban = special release