![]() Her psychic powers also allow her to manipulate DNA and viruses, creating her mutated smallpox virus in the novels. This allows her to create the videotape while trapped in the well. 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. Sadako is very powerful, inheriting her psychic powers from her mother, and possibly her unknown father in the films. She comments to Mai why she and Yoichi were able to escape while she could not, and willingly plunges down the well to the bottom. Sadako appears to concede defeat in Ring 2 when Yoichi and Mai escape her in the well, submitting herself to her fate. This is the side which takes primary control of her body after her death, exacting her vengeance upon those who watch the Cursed Videotape. Her evil side is shown to be mischievous, and appears to be the embodiment of Sadako's powers and negative emotions. She fell in love with Hiroshi Toyama after he repeatedly protected her from harm and became her confidant, and her eventual lover. She was shown to be quite caring and apologetic, attempting to aid a disabled man by healing his paralyzed legs. The good Sadako is shown to be a quiet and gentle soul, but isolated due to her psychic powers and strange presence, which ultimately led to her death at the hands of the acting troupe she joined. As seen in a flashback sequence in Ring 0, the malformed, drooping eye that Sadako sports as a ghost is unique to her evil side. Her face is hardly shown in her ghostly form, only an eye appearing in Ring, but her whole face, based on a forensic expert's interpretation, appears in Ring 2. The evil Sadako's form appears to be an inspiration for her American incarnation, Samara Morgan. He allowed the good Sadako twin to live a normal life, and kept the evil Sadako twin imprisoned, feeding her growth-inhibiting drugs to keep her from physically maturing. Ikuma, Sadako's step-father, speculated that the good Sadako took after her human mother, Shizuko, and the evil Sadako took after her inhuman birth father. In the films, as a child, Sadako split into two different girls after murdering a journalist at her mother's botched psychic demonstration one was kind and timid, while the other was evil and psychotic. 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. The two forms of Sadako (evil self, background good self, foreground). (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 thrown down a well by the samurai she spurned, and Oiwa of the Yotsuya Kaidan (四谷怪談) who was fooled into drinking poison and murdered by her husband. They all have a specified appearance: pale women with long, disheveled black hair wearing white burial clothes. 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. In Japan, the name has since been negatively associated with ghosts, though it was once a popular name for girls. ![]() 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. Sadako's name is Japanese for "chaste child" ( sada: chaste and ko: child).
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