Yurei, onryo, yokai, ghost, and other creepy things about them: Sadako Yamamura, she began everything with her cursed video tape

Sadako, Ringu (1998)

Sadako is the main antagonist of the Japanese horror film Ring directed by Hideo Nakata and released in 1998. An american remake was also released in 2002, The Ring, directed by Gore Verbinski, introducing the onryō to the western public. In fact, Ring is an adaptation of the book bearing the same name and written by Koji Suzuki. She was the first of the many onryō in cinema to know global popularity and start the global phenomenon of "dead wet girls" as monsters in theaters.

Who is she?

In her past life, Sadako was the daughter of Shizuko Yamamura, a woman practicing nensha, the art of projecting images onto film by thought alone, thus making Sadako already

As an onryō, Sadako interacts with people using a haunted video tape which, once viewed, will make the closest phone to ring, only to hear someone

Technology:

Sadako coming out of the TV, Ringu (1998)

Sadako is one of the few onryō that combine modernity and tradition, by using technology as a main tool to interact with their victims. Unlike other yūrei and onryō depicted in movies before her, Sadako was the first to break up with the traditional Japanese ghost, appealing more to younger viewers by the use of modern devices such as televisions and, for that time, video tapes. Like said before, Sadako's main tool is a video tape that contains her curse.

In fact, she confronts the modern viewer an unexpected fear, the fear of technology, which is an everyday tool of our live, essential to have among us. What Sadako does is that she turns technology against us, making us terribly isolated and vulnerable since it is everywhere at anytime, plunging us into an endless and relentless oppression.