Biography
Little Sadako was born in Japan and grew up as a very gloomy and unsociable child. Despite all the parents' attempts to help their daughter establish communication with peers, she still did not want to make friends.
Sadako's mother was a famous psychic. She helped people, but there were times when she was sometimes mistaken. In order to prove to others that she has occult abilities, she agreed to an experiment with Dr. Fukurai in Tokyo. Based on the results of the tests, the doctor came to a final conclusion, according to which the woman had psychic abilities, but their strength was insufficient for great things.
This conclusion only spurred the psychic’s enemies to action, and they began to spit in her direction. Sadako's mother could not bear such humiliation and committed suicide.
After this, the little girl withdrew even more into herself and moved to a remote island with her father. As the girl grew older, he began to notice her unusual abilities. Her father decided to show her to the same Dr. Fukurai.
The experiments on the subject brought the doctor into furious delight. The girl could mentally draw on film. No one in Japan has managed to do this.
The doctor wanted to show the discovery to the world and write a book about it. But the girl refused, remembering the bitter fate of her mother.
Further events are terrible: the doctor was afraid that someone else would discover Sadako’s abilities, and then the glory would go to someone else. He tricked the poor girl into a nearby thicket, strangled her, and threw her into a log, which he covered with a heavy stone.
But Sadako miraculously survived and tried to escape, but all attempts were in vain. The unfortunate girl spent another 7 days at the bottom of the well before she died. During this time, terrible evil and hatred for the whole world awakened in her.
Her anger was projected onto a videotape that promised death to anyone who watched it. The only way to escape death in a white robe with long black hair is to copy the tape and let someone else watch it.
The true story of Sadako Takahashi
Sadako Yamamura is one of the most famous horror movie characters. He also has an American analogue - Samara Morgan. Many people on the planet were frightened by the scene during which a girl climbs out of a well and enters the room through the TV screen.
Few people know that the image of Sadako and her mother was based on a real person. At the beginning of the 20th century in Japan, there lived a girl who had strong psychic abilities - Chizuko Mifune, and her brother had hypnosis skills. When the girl was a little over 20 years old, her brother inspired her to believe that she was clairvoyant. Chizuko became a local celebrity, attracting crowds of people who wanted, thanks to her abilities, to find out the answers to their questions.
Scientists became interested in these abilities and decided to study them. One of them was Dr. Tomokichi Fukurai. To his surprise, the woman actually had the gift. She could read the writing on the sheets of paper that were placed in opaque packaging. But the trouble was that she could not demonstrate her ability in public. This caused many to accuse the woman of being just a fraud.
This became the reason for her suicide. And then special abilities appeared in another girl, with whom Mifune conducted experiments. Her name was Sadako Takahashi. In reality, the deceased clairvoyant was not Mifune’s mother. Experiments were conducted in which Sadako demonstrated her ability to draw words and images on film with the power of her thoughts. But the scientist did not demonstrate her abilities to everyone. And then Sadoko died of tuberculosis.
Movies, novels, games and anime
The image of Sadako, the ghost from the well, has served as the basis for Japanese novels, films, games and anime.
- In the novel "The Ring" her whole sad story was told, but the character does not appear in real time. In "Spiral" she was assigned a role - she dreamed of filling the world with her doubles. The novel "Loop" briefly intersected its events with the chronicle of her life, and "Birth" describes the touching love story of Sadako and Toyama.
- The Japanese horror film "The Ring" is entirely based on the life story of Sadako. The main difference from the book is that the ghost kills people in real time. The sequels to the famous film “Call 0” and “Call: Virus” slightly alter its story, filling it with horrific details.
- After the release of the horror film, the girl from the well becomes the heroine of Japanese anime. But this genre contributed to her story and added sadness, warmth and endless melancholy to her. The white-robed ghost character is a favorite character that Japanese schoolgirls often transform into.
- The computer game of the same name is dedicated to Sadako . It greatly distorts its history, but despite this, millions of fans of this saga have not stopped playing it for several years.
The girl from the well is unlikely to stop scaring the Japanese. The longer her story lives, the worse her atrocities become.
From Sadako Yamamura to Samara Morgan: A Brief History of the Girl with Black Hair
It all started with the novel “The Ring” by Koji Suzuki, which was published in 1991. In 1998, director Hideo Nakata made the very first “The Ring” based on it, and the scene in which a wet Sadako crawls out of a well into a room from a TV screen, scaring the protagonist to death, became one of the most amazing scenes in cinema history.
Then it started. South Korean filmmakers were the first to remake the film, which instantly became a cult classic. In 1999, Dong-bin Kim directed the film "The Ring: Virus", where Sadako Yamamura turned into Park Eunsu, but remained a hermaphrodite, as in the novel.
The second remake was directed by Gore Verbinski in 2002. In the American series, Sadako became Samara Morgan, the adopted daughter of Richard and Anna Morgan. The girl had the ability of projection thermography - she could “burn” images and memories into the minds of any living beings or onto any recording media, as she did with that very cassette. Unlike Sadako, who was 19, Samara was 7 and lived only seven days in the well where her exhausted adoptive parents took her.
Since then, the Japanese and American series have evolved. The first, with all the sequels, prequels and side-quels, already contains seven films, two of which were released in 3D. And the second one is more modest, it has only three films.
From today all of them are on ivi, and the editors invite the most daring to the world of Samara.
- Call
Rachel is a journalist who investigates the terrible events that happen after watching a mysterious videotape. Everyone who watches it lives for another week, and then inevitable death... Unintentionally, the tape ends up in the hands of her son, who is now also in danger of death. She faces a race with death in an attempt to change at least something and find an explanation for everything that is happening.
- Ring 2
Direct continuation of the first film. To get rid of the nightmare memories and start a new life, Rachel and her son move to a small town in Oregon. But when a murder is committed and a mysterious, unsigned videotape is discovered at the crime scene, Rachel realizes that the vengeful Samara is back and intends to continue her reign of terror. In the fight for her life and her son's, Rachel must once again confront Samara.
- Calls
A special and modern continuation of the story, in which you will not see the actors of the previous films.
This picture turned out to be more technological, youthful and less predictable than classic films. Have you seen who Davey Chase, who played Samara in the first and second films, has grown into? April 25, 2021
How the curse of the girl from the well came about
In the urban legend of the curse of the girl from the well, it is said that Chizuko Mifune and Sadako Takahashi were the daughter and mother. Both of them became test subjects for Tomokichi Fukurai.
The scientist wanted to publish a book about the girl, but she refused because of her mother. Sadako told him she was leaving. She had no intention of returning. It is believed that an angry Fukurai strangled the girl and threw her body into an abandoned well, which he then covered with a heavy stone. Sadako did not die immediately. She woke up at the bottom of the well and tried to get out. But she did not have the strength to move the stone.
She died 7 days later, vowing revenge before her death. This created a terrible curse. Several mental images, thanks to the girl’s abilities, ended up on a videotape. This film reached people. Anyone who viewed it died after 7 days.
The only way to avoid it was to make a copy of the recording and give it to another person to watch. Sadako appears as a young woman with dark long hair. They completely cover the face. The girl is dressed in a white dress. This image embodies the spirit of vengeance of a deceased person from Japanese mythology.
By the way, the films say that Sadako was born after her mother entered into a relationship with a certain sea demon, and is not originally human.
The fate of Samara Morgan
Samara was born as a result of rape. The girl's mother was kidnapped by a local priest and, after abusing her, he locked her in the basement of a church and kept her there until the child was born. Even in early childhood, the baby began to send monstrous visions to her mother. Fearing that the child was possessed by the devil, the mother tried to drown the child in the fountain, but they managed to stop her. As a result, the girl ended up in an orphanage, and the woman in a psychiatric hospital.
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Having found herself in another family, Samara began to torment her new mother, Anna, with hallucinations, despite the fact that she sincerely loved her. Having reached the point of madness, the mother throws the girl into a well, where she remains alive for another 7 days. After a painful death, Samara's spirit returns to her adoptive mother and forces her to commit suicide.
Having turned into a ghost, Morgan retains the ability to inspire thoughts and visions in others, and also gains the ability to inhabit other living beings, bend in the most bizarre and unnatural way, and control water, electricity and the blood circulation of victims. She also creates a sinister artifact - a killing tape, around which the plot unfolds.
In the original book, Sadako was killed not by her mother, but by the doctor of the hospital where she was treated for smallpox. Before that, he raped her. It is interesting that the criminal subsequently escaped punishment, and his monstrous act was revealed only by chance. The ghost of the murdered girl also does not haunt him, and the power of the curse falls on random people.
History of character creation
For the first time, the prototype of Samara, the Japanese woman Sadako Yamamura, appears in the novel “The Ring” by Koji Suzuki, published in 1991. According to some reports, the girl had 2 real prototypes, described by Tokyo University professor Tomokichi Fukurai, who decided to prove the existence of thought graphics and telekinesis. He studied and described the abilities of two young women, Sadako Takahashi and Chizuko Mifune, who allegedly could see writing on paper and photographic plates through sealed and cloth-covered envelopes.
The records of clairvoyants did not receive recognition from scientists, but they interested the writer Koji Suzuki, who brought them out in the novel as members of the same Yamamura family - mother and daughter.
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Samara is younger than her Japanese predecessor - she died at 7 years old, and Sadako at 19. Both have the unique ability to “burn” images on the surface of objects in the material world, as well as send visions and hallucinations to people, and transfer their memories to them. Thus, Morgan created a deadly videotape, viewing of which leads to death.
The appearance of the girl from “The Ring” goes back to the images of Japanese ghosts onryo and yurei - at the beginning of the 20th century they were depicted dressed in long white clothes, with pale faces and matted hair. The image of Samara became very popular among American teenagers on Halloween - all you had to do was find a nightgown and a wig.
The frightening effect of Sadako's unnatural gait as she climbed out of the well was achieved by rewinding - in fact, the actress was walking backwards, and during editing the frames were shot in the opposite direction. They are accompanied by an ominous song that promises that “when the sun rises, we will all die.”
