Films — Live-Action
“Seven days…”
— Opening Text, “Film/The Ring”
When someone dies in the grip of a powerful rage... a curse is born. The curse gathers in that place of death. Those who encounter it will be consumed by its fury.
— Opening Text, The Grudge
You start to play it... and it's like somebody's nightmare. Then suddenly, this woman comes on. Smiling at you, right? Seeing you... through the screen. Then when it's over, your phone rings. Someone knows you watched it. And what they say is, "You will die in seven days". And exactly seven days later.
— Becca, The Ring
Literature
During the Heian period (c.794-1185), for example, it was believed after death Sugawara no Michizane (845-903) transformed into a mischievous and spiteful spirit, an onryo, and caused a number of misfortunes, only relenting once he was deified as a sacred spirit, or goryo. Death can change a human into something else, it seems, but even such an after-death manifestation is unstable and can be altered again—in this case from a demonic spirit into a deific one.
— Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai by Michael Dylan Foster
