The film succeeds by telling a simple story very simply, striking a perfect, harmonious balance between its three understated elements: voice, music and drawings. In that way Sadako's wish did come true, after a fashion, and her spirit is alive and well in a beautifully rendered 30-minute film, narrated by Liv Ullmann over the solo guitar of George Winston and some evocative watercolor sketches by Ed Young. Her schoolmates finished the rest, and after publishing Sadako's diaries earned enough money to raise a monument in Hiroshima's Peace Park, dedicated to all the children killed in the atomic holocaust. While confined in a hospital she began folding 1,000 paper cranes to fulfill an old Japanese legend claiming that anyone who does so will be granted a wish, but Sadako died (at age 12) after completing only two-thirds of the total. One of the victims of the first nuclear bomb used in combat was young Sadako Sasaki, barely a toddler when her city was destroyed and diagnosed with radiation-induced leukemia a decade later. Since the long-haired girl debuted in Koji Suzuki's novel Ring in 1991, the character has become a nightmarish icon. Sadako is one of the most terrifying movie monsters of the modern age. We need stories like this to help us cope with unimaginable events: the atom bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 being a perfect case in point. Aya Tsutsumi's popular manga Sadako-san and Sadako-chan takes The Ring in a surprisingly cute and charming direction.
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