Koji Suzuki, the original author of the Japanese classic horror film "The Ring", passed away at the age of 68. According to Japanese media reports, Suzuki Koji, whose real name is Suzuki Koji, was born in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Literature at Keio University, majoring in French. In 1990, he won the Japan Fantasy Novel Award for Excellence for his debut novel "Paradise", which describes a magnificent love story spanning ten thousand years.
His second work "Rim" was shortlisted for the Yokogawa Mystery and Horror Award in 1991. It was adapted into a movie by Hideo Nakata in 1998. The scene in which Sadako, the source of the curse, crawls out of the TV screen sparked heated discussions and set off a wave of social phenomena. The movie "The Ring" grossed over 1 billion yen, scaring the public to the point of feeling shadowy when watching the video.
"The Ring" went from Japan to international fame and was remade in South Korea and the United States. It became a phenomenon-level movie with multiple sequels, and Sadako became an enduring "horror movie heroine" in the history of movies.
The sequel "Spiral" (1995) won the Eiji Yoshikawa Literary Newcomer Award. His novel "The Edge" (2008) won the American Shirley Jackson Award. Last year, he published the horror novel "Everywhere."