Kōji Suzuki

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kōji Suzuki (born May 13, 1957) is a Japanese writer, who was born in Hamamatsu and currently lives in Tokyo. Suzuki is the author of the Ring cycle of novels, which has been adapted into a manga series. He has written several books on the subject of fatherhood. His hobbies include traveling and motorcycling (hobbies found on the back of The Ring, 2002, Kōji Suzuki). He is currently on the selection committee for the Japan Fantasy Novel Award. His recent novel Edge puts the main theme on Feynman point. Description above from the Wikipedia article Koji Suzuki, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

4.6

Sadako DX

Ayaka Ichijo is a graduate student with an IQ of 200 who tries to investigate the strange deaths happening nationwide after people supposedly watched a cursed video and her younger sister also did the same out of curiosity.

Release Date:2022-10-28

Department:Writing

Job:Characters

Vote Count:35

OTHELLO

OTHELLO

A small theatre troupe, "ENGINE," has its rehearsal hall in a dirty building near Tsutenkaku Tower, in Osaka. The young members of the troupe, including their lead actress Yamaguchi Mai, are working hard on their rehearsals, even skipping their sleep as the Tokyo performance is just around the corner. The piece they are working on this time is "DICE," the troupe's most famous work. It is a deeply memorable work for the troupe, which was first performed 10 years ago and will make its first performance in Tokyo soon. Therefore, the leader of the troupe, Mr Shigemori, is more enthusiastic than usual, but he is not satisfied with the performance of the troupe members and is becoming increasingly dissatisfied. Then... Mai discovers a VHS videotape labelled "DICE" in the company's archives. It contained rehearsal footage of the first performance 10 years ago... As soon as Mai and her friends see the videotape, strange and inexplicable phenomena begin to occur around them...

Release Date:2022-07-25

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:10

5.9

Sadako

A psychologist connects her missing brother to the strange case of a mysterious little girl believed to be Sadako reincarnated.

Release Date:2019-05-24

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:115

5.0

Rings

Julia becomes worried about her boyfriend Holt when he explores the dark urban legend of a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after viewing. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen before.

Release Date:2017-02-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:2498

5.6

Sadako vs. Kayako

A girl, Yūri Kurahashi, after watching a cursed videotape together with her friend in a haunted house, becomes trapped in a conflict between the two murderous ghosts: Sadako Yamamura and Kayako Saeki

Release Date:2016-06-18

Department:Writing

Job:Characters

Vote Count:227

6.4

Eyes

One day, a mysterious letter 'F' starts to be written on doorplates in a condominium building. Since then, mysterious incidents consistently occur around Yukari Yamamoto, who is an ordinary female high school student living in the building.

Release Date:2015-06-06

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Character:

Vote Count:15

4.8

Sadako 3D 2

Five years have passed since the events of Sadako 3D. Akane is pregnant with a child with her boyfriend Takenori. However, Akane dies after giving birth to her daughter. When Takenori's sister Fuko takes up the task of caring for Akane's daughter, the infamous cursed video resurfaces. During her investigation, Fuko learns about the legend of Sadako's daughter...

Release Date:2013-08-30

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:56

5.3

Sadako 3D

Akane is a high school teacher who hears a rumor from her students that there is actual footage on the Internet of someone's suicide. The footage is said to drive anyone who sees it to also commit suicide. Akane does not believe the rumor at first, but when one of her female students dies after viewing the footage, she and her boyfriend Takanori are fatefully drawn into the horror that has been created by the man who appears in the suicide footage, Kashiwada. Kashiwada's intention is to create chaos in the world by bringing back Sadako and the power of her curse. Now Akane has to fight against Sadako and Kashiwada to save the lives of herself and Takanori.

Release Date:2012-05-12

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:94

4.8

Dream Cruise

Absolutely terrified of the sea, an American lawyer reluctantly goes on an ocean cruise to be near the wife of a client, with no idea of the grim situation that awaits them all.

Release Date:2007-05-12

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:29

5.5

Open Water 2: Adrift

A weekend cruise on a luxurious party yacht goes horribly wrong for a group of old high-school friends when they get stuck in the water many miles from shore and a happy reunion turns into a fight for survival.

Release Date:2006-07-10

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:681

Asoko no seki

Transfer student Kana is assigned a seat whose previous occupants committed suicide.

Release Date:2005-09-03

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

@Babymail

A high school teacher, Masato Saito, is told by his best friend, police officer Shinya Saito, about a strange murder case. The incident was that a woman broke through her belly and had an umbilical cord popping out of her belly, and at the same time three men were said to have blew bubbles from their mouths and died. One day, Shinya's wife, Junko, receives something called Baby Mail. The baby mail says, "I have a grudge against someone who is trying to have a child. I will raise my child." When she opens the attached file "@", the baby cried and the LCD of her cell phone cracked, which was creepy. A month later, she was found in a condition similar to the bizarre incident. However, she was diagnosed as four months pregnant when her body was found, even though she had her period a month ago.

Release Date:2005-09-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

5.7

Dark Water

Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York's Roosevelt Island. Dahlia is in the midst of divorce proceedings, and the apartment, though near an excellent school for her daughter, is all she can afford. From the time she arrives, there are mysterious occurrences—and there is a constant drip from the ceiling in her daughter's bedroom…

Release Date:2005-07-08

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1024

5.7

The Ring Two

After the ordeal with Samara, Rachel and Aiden move to a rural town. But soon Rachel learns about the death of a girl in a similar fashion. To save Aiden, she must dig into Samara's past even further.

Release Date:2005-03-10

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:2290

Samara's Cursed Videotape

The uncut version of Samara's cursed videotape which is featured in The Ring (2002).

Release Date:2003-03-04

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

6.7

The Ring

Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring so she can save herself and her son.

Release Date:2002-10-18

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:6243

6.8

Dark Water

A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.

Release Date:2002-01-19

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:618

6.1

Ring 0

Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit.

Release Date:2000-01-22

Department:Writing

Job:Author

Vote Count:254

Spiral

Spiral

Spiral is the sequel to the TV drama The Ring: The Final Chapter, based on the novel Spiral by Koji Suzuki. In a potent brew that is frightening audiences, this new type of horror blends traditional Japanese occult-like myths and curses with present-day elements such as viruses, genetic engineering and cloning. Six people die in an office building where a murder once took place. When the authorities investigate the scene of the odd incident, they find the fingerprints of a man who had already been executed.

Release Date:1999-07-01

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

4.8

The Ring Virus

Sun-ju is a reporter who uncovers a series of inexplicable deaths that occurred simultaneously. Her investigation leads her to a resort, where she finds a videotape filled with mysterious images. After viewing it, a message appears on the screen that she has just been cursed, and that in order to save herself she must - end of tape. Somebody has erased the rest, leaving her horrified and uncertain of her next move.

Release Date:1999-06-12

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:36

5.8

Ring 2

While investigating the horrifying death of her boyfriend, Mai Takano learns about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a disturbing girl named Sadako, which kills anyone who watches it exactly one week later. When her boyfriend’s son, Yoichi, starts to develop the same psychic abilities as Sadako, Takano must find a way to keep the boy and herself from becoming the next victims.

Release Date:1999-01-23

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:416

Ring: The Final Chapter
6.2

Ring: The Final Chapter

Ring: The Final Chapter is a television series, produced in Japan, based on the Ring movie series. There are a total of 12 episodes in the series and a sequel was made called Rasen, consisting of 13 episodes.

Release Date:1999-01-07

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:10

7.1

Ring

A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.

Release Date:1998-01-31

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1458

5.4

The Spiral

A young pathologist seeks answers to the mysterious death of a friend and soon comes into contact with the same cursed videotape that caused the death of the friend's wife and son, which is haunted by the curse of Sadako, a relentless spirit.

Release Date:1998-01-31

Department:Writing

Job:Author

Vote Count:141

6.1

Ring

In different parts of Tokyo, four young and seemingly healthy people suddenly die of heart failure at exactly the same moment. Reporter Kazuyuki Asakawa decides to investigate the deaths, and discovers that the four had stayed at a rural inn together just a week earlier. At the inn, he comes across a strange video that ends with a message saying that anyone who watches it will die exactly seven days later. Now the clock is ticking for Asakawa. Can he break the curse in time?

Release Date:1995-08-11

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:48

Adrift

In the dead calm of the open sea, a fishing boat discovers an abandoned yacht after responding to a strange distress call. A deckhand agrees to take lone control of it while it’s towed into port, but he soon discovers why the rest of his more experienced crew members call it a “ghost ship.”

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Fly Boys, Fly!

Six young pilots who all volunteered to be Kami-kaze or suicide pilots.

Release Date:1995-09-23

5.0

Toward a Time of Trouble

In prehistoric Mongolia lived a couple—Bogdo and Fayau. Their happy life is torn apart when Fayau is abducted by an invading tribe. With the supreme guardian spirit "Red Stag"'s blessing, Bogdo ventures out to the ocean but his journey ends without fulfilling his wish to be reunited with Fayau. The Red Stag, however, promises that the lovers' paths will cross again in time. The strong love between Bogdo and Fayau survives through 10,000 years of human history, as they are reborn into the Age of Discovery and again into today's world.

Release Date:1991-06-16

Department:Crew

Job:Creator

Vote Count:1

6.6

Gorath

In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is enough to destroy the planet totally. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after the ship is drawn into the star, with a later mission barely escaping the same fate. However, Astronaut Tatsuma Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. Unable to destroy the invading star, Earth's scientists undertake a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move the planet out of Gorath's path before it is too late.

Release Date:1962-03-21

Character:Pilot of Hayabusa

Vote Count:20

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