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Sadako Sasaki (佐々木 禎子, Sasaki Sadako, January 7, 1943 – October 25, 1955) was a Japanese girl who became a victim of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States. She was two years of age when the bombs were dropped and was severely irradiated.
Sadako Yamamura (山村 貞子, Yamamura Sadako) is the main antagonist of Koji Suzuki's Ring novel series and its eponymous film series. Her backstory varies between continuities, but all depict her as the vengeful ghost of a young psychic who was murdered and thrown into a well.
- Origins
- Appearance and Personality
- Abilities
- Koji Suzuki's Ring
- Ring
- Rasen/Spiral
- Ring 2
- Ring 0: Birthday/ "Lemonheart"
- Dead by Daylight
- Trivia
Etymology
Sadako's name is Japanese for "chaste child" (sada: chaste and ko: child). This may be an indication of her inability to reproduce in the novels due to Testicular Feminization Syndrome and her obsession with procreating in the later novels. In Japan, the name has since been negatively associated with ghosts, though it was once a popular name for girls.
Mythology
Sadako's evil spirit is based off of the Japanese concept of onryō (怨霊) or "vengeful ghosts." Onryō were thought to be the souls of those who died with extreme hatred, particularly women. They all have a specified appearance: pale women with long, disheveled black hair wearing white burial clothes. (In ancient Japan, women's hair was kept up until death.) Sadako herself is based off of two famous onryō: Okiku of Banchō Sarayashiki (番町皿屋敷, The Dish Mansion at Banchō) who was murdered and throw...
Sadako's cultural appearance is of a woman in a white dress with long black hair covering her face, which has evolved into a trait for other icons of horror films, such as Kayako Saeki of the Ju-On/The Grudge franchise. In the films, as a child, Sadako split into two different girls after murdering a journalist at her mother's botched psychic demon...
Sadako is very powerful, inheriting her psychic powers from her mother, and possibly her unknown father in the films. Her most notable power is that of Nensha, an ability which allows her to telekinetically burn images onto surfaces or into a person's mind. This allows her to create the videotape while trapped in the well. Her psychic powers also a...
Little of Sadako's history is revealed in the first novel, save the pivotal events which Kazuyuki Asakawa and Ryuji Takayama discover during their race to trace the origins of the cursed videotape. Born on Sashikiji, Oshima Island, Sadako is the child of psychic Shizuko Yamamuraand her lover, Dr. Heihachiro Ikuma, a assistant professor of psychiatr...
(Note: In America, the film tends to go under the title of Ringuin order to distinguish it from the American remake. However, the book and movie originally used the English word “Ring” as their title; the American title is a transliteration of the kana used to spell “Ring”: リング. ) In Hideo Nakata's film adaptation, Sadako's origins remain fundament...
Both the film and the novel remove much of the emphasis placed on Sadako in Ring. Ando Mitsuo, a collegue of Ryuji's, performs an autopsy on Ryuji's body and discovers the tumor placed there by the Ring Virus. Sadako makes an appearance under the guise of Mai Takano'ssister, Masako, who seduces Ando and forces him to do her bidding. Though apparent...
The "true" sequel to the first film, directed by Hideo Nakata, differs greatly from the second novel and its film version. Doctors investigate Sadako's retrieved corpse, wherein it is revealed to her uncle, Takashi Yamamura, that she remained alive in the well for thirty years. The forensic experts reconstruct the body and face, and later send it t...
"Lemonheart" is part of a compilation of short stories by Koji Suzuki titled Birthday. It chronicles the days of Sadako shortly before her encounter with Nagao. Currently nineteen years old, Sadako joins an acting troupe in Tokyo and falls in love with fellow troupe member, Hiroshi Tôyama. She is also about to make her acting debut as the lead in t...
On 15th December 2021, the Ringu リング chapter for the popular game Dead by Daylight (2016) was announced, which would soon feature Sadako Yamamura (the Onryō) and Yoichi Asakawa. The Sadako Rising (Chapter 23) was later released on the 8th March 2022. Various add-ons and features that were introduced in this chapter referenced the first Ringu film (...
It is pointed out that Sadako's ghostly appearance and famous 'Eye Stare' scene inspired the "Woman in Box" ghost from the horror game, Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly.Her incarnation in the American series is Samara Morgan, played by Daveigh Chase, Kelly Stables, and Bonnie Morgan.Two-year old Sadako Sasaki was at home in Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, when the US dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb over her city. Sadako survived the bombing of Hiroshima but passed away ten years later from leukemia.
Jul 27, 2020 · The origami peace crane has long been associated with Sadako Sasaki, a young girl who died from leukaemia caused by the radioactive fallout of the Hiroshima bombing. Read her story to find out how she began folding cranes and why.
Aug 8, 2020 · The tragic legacy of Sadako Sasaki and her thousand paper cranes. At two years old, she survived Hiroshima. Ten years later, she died from leukaemia caused by radiation.
One of the most tragic human stories that emerged from the United States' atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 is that of Sasaki Sadako.
