Sadako Yamamura

Sadako Yamamura is the villain from the film Ringu. She had immense psychic powers, including the ability to kill someone just by wishing it. Sadako's mother was Shizuko Yamamura, a psychic. Her father was unknown, but presumed to be some kind of sea demon. Shizuko was always considered strange by the other inhabitants of her home island of Oshima. She would sit on the beach and stare at the ocean for hours. She was once seen speaking to it in a language that wasn't human. It is presumed that a sea demon talked to Shizuko and impregnated her with Sadako. Shortly before this, she had predicted the eruption of Mt. Mihara, the island's volcano, with her psychic powers. Hoping to make money off of Shizuko, her cousin leaked this to the press, and Shizuko became famous overnight. This attracted the attention of Dr. Heihachiro Ikuma, a professor from a Tokyo university who wanted to prove the existence of ESP. He arrived on Oshima, and visited Shizuko. The girl and the married professor began an affair, and as Shizuko was found pregnant shortly thereafter, Ikuma was presumed to be Sadako's father. After Sadako's birth, Ikuma took her and her mother to Tokyo, where he continued his experiments. A few years later, Ikuma decided to hold a public demonstration of Shizuko's powers, with members of the press present. Ikuma and Shizuko proceeded with the deomstration, while Sadako watched from backstage. Shizuko never onced failed, but the demonstration was interrupted by a reporter who stood up and declared Shizuko a fake. This started an uproar, with other observers joining in the declarations of "fraud" and "fake." Sadako was enraged by this treatment of her mother, lashed out with her power and killed the first reporter to cry out. After the demonstration, Ikuma was fired from his university. He took Sadako with him to his home on the Izu peninsula, while Shizuko returned to Oshima, eventually killing herself by leaping into Mt. Mihara. Ikuma, who loved Sadako as his own daughter, wanted her to have a normal life, but he realized that her evil side unleashed during the demonstration would overpower her good side. While Sadako was looking into a well on Ikuma's property, he hit on the head with a large metal implement and tossed her body into the well, believing she was dead. But Sadako was still alive, and her hate and rage at the world accumlated around her in the well, remaining when she died. Thirty years later, a resort was built on Ikuma's property, and a cabin was constructed over the well. A young boy placed a blank tape in the VCR to record a show, and forgot about when he left the cabin. The TV and VCR were situated directly above the well, and Sadako's rage radiated up around the tape. The tape was imprinted with images from Sadako's mind and memory. The tape was cursed, and anyone who watched it would die in seven days unless they copied the tape and showed it to someone else.