zchendevlemh wrote:arigato!
is it true that there's these real ghost story about the "ring" in japan
but the case is that you'll dieif you read these novel and there's a well at the last page of the well with these woman will came out nad get you. a friend told me that
In the movie, after they had the public demonstration where the guys were calling Shizuko a fraud, is actually true. Not all of the elements of the movie are based on a true story. Let me provide you what I could dig up.
Mifune Chizuko was born in 1886 in Kumamoto Prefecture. By 1909, rumors of her powers of foresight, which developed one day while practicing a kind of meditation involving deep breathing, had begun to spread throughout Kumamoto and beyond. These rumors eventually reached the ear of one Fukurai Tomokichi, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Tokyo University. Fukurai had a deep interest in the supernatural and used Chizuko as one of his test subjects in proving the validity of extra-sensory perception- The culmination of which was the infamous public demonstration held on September 15, 1910.
While the actual demonstration was free of fatality, (unlike in the movie) Chizuko, just like Shizuko (movie character) was accused of being a fraud, a blow from which she never recovered. Whereas Shizuko committed suicide by throwing herself into an active volcano, Mifune Chizuko ended her life in 1911 by ingesting poison. She was only 25.
Shizuko's choice to end her life as she had in the movie were inspired by actual events. In 1933, a young girl named Matsumoto Kiyoko committed suicide by throwing herself into Mt. Mihara. In months to follow, hundreds would go to kill themselves in the same manner.
Incidently, just one year before Chizuko's death, another young psychic was born that would later rise to prominence for her gift on "Nensha". -The focusing of will to produce an image on a film or some other medium. Her name was Takahashi Sadako.
>Sorry, I know this is a Nakama Yukie thread and all, but this is relevant..... Kind of.....................??? :sweat: