Lorsqu'il pratique l'autopsie de son ami Ryuji, le médecin légiste Mitsuo Ando est loin de se douter qu'il va plonger dans l'irrationnel et le cauchemar... Comment est-il possible qu'un petit bout de papier se trouve au milieu des organes de son camarade de faculté avec juste ce message énigmatique : "Ring" ? Comment peut-il apparemment être décédé d'un effet secondaire de la variole, pourtant éradiquée depuis plus de vingt-cinq ans ? Et pourquoi l'amie de Ryuji a-t-elle disparu après avoir mentionné une mystérieuse cassette vidéo ? L'épidémie se répand, progresse insidieusement. Le phénomène "Ring" ne fait que commencer : livre, film, vidéo, DVD. Tout le Japon est déjà conquis. Peut-être êtes-vous, vous aussi, déjà infecté par le virus !

Quattro ragazzi muoiono nello stesso giorno e alla stessa ora, improvvisamente, stroncati da un infarto. Un avvenimento forse non particolarmente strano in una grande città come Tokyo. Ma lo zio di una delle vittime è Asakawa, un giornalista che, di cose strane, in quelle morti, ne vede parecchie. Anzitutto i quattro ragazzi si conoscevano, anzi avevano addirittura trascorso insieme un breve periodo di vacanza. Inoltre sono tutti morti con un'espressione di puro terrore stampata per sempre sul viso. In preda a una singolare frenesia, Asakawa comincia a indagare nella vita dei giovani e scopre quasi per caso che, una settimana prima di morire, i quattro avevano guardato un'inquietante videocassetta, su cui è incisa una serie d'immagini misteriose: l'eruzione di un vulcano, un neonato che piange, una quantità sterminata di volti, una vecchia che parla in un incomprensibile dialetto... E, alla fine, una scritta bianca su fondo nero: «Adesso che avete visto queste immagini, siete condannati a morire esattamente a quest'ora, tra una settimana. Se non volete morire, dovete seguire esattamente queste istruzioni...» poi più nulla. Si tratta forse di uno scherzo di pessimo gusto? Oppure è un avvertimento? Ma cosa rappresentano quelle immagini? E, soprattutto, chi ha inciso la cassetta e perché? Queste le domande che affollano la mente di Asakawa, il quale, sospeso tra incredulità e terrore, chiede aiuto a un amico, Ryuji, un professore universitario disincantato e concreto, per venire a capo del mistero. Le risposte arriveranno, ma, per ottenerle, Asakawa e Ryuji dovranno pagare un prezzo molto alto. E forse non soltanto loro...

SUMMARY: "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line of Shunryu Suzuki's classic. In a single stroke, the simple sentence cuts through the pervasive tendency students have of getting so close to Zen as to completely miss what it's all about. An instant teaching on the first page. And that's just the beginning. In the thirty years since its original publication, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind has become one of the great modern Zen classics, much beloved, much re-read, and much recommended as the best first book to read on Zen. Suzuki Roshi presents the basics—from the details of posture and breathing in zazen to the perception of nonduality—in a way that is not only remarkably clear, but that also resonates with the joy of insight from the first to the last page. It's a book to come back to time and time again as an inspiration to practice.

EDITORIAL REVIEW: Here are the famous sutras, or sermons, of the Buddha; the gathas, or hymns; the intriguing philosophical puzzles known as koan; and the dharanis, or invocations to expel evil spirits. Included also are the recorded conversations of the great Buddhist monks — intimate dialogues on subjects of momentous importance. In addition to the written selections, all of them translated by Dr. Suzuki, there are reproductions of many Buddhist drawings and paintings, including religious statues found in Zen temples, each with an explanation of its significance, and the great series of allegorical paintings “The Ten Oxherding Pictures."

A haunting collection of short stories from Koji Suzuki, author of the smash thriller, , which spawned the hit film and sequels. The first story in this collection has been adapted to film (, Walter Salles), and another, “” is currently in production with Dimension Films.

Basis of the Hit Movie Ring 0: Birthday!

Birthday is Ring-master Koji Suzuki’s return to the Ring universe, a collection of short stories focusing on the female characters with a theme of birth. An exploration of extraordinary circumstances from the perspective of memorable women, this expansion of the Ring, Spiral, and Loop world was adapted into a hit movie less than a year after the book’s publication.

Thirty years before the tragic events of Ring, Sadako Yamamura was an aspiring stage actress on the verge of her theatrical debut. The beautiful and ravishing Sadako was the object of every male’s desire involved with the company including n the director. There was one thespian she was interested in, but¦

Fast forward past the events of Ring, Ryuji Takayama’s distraught lover, Mai Takano is struggling in the wake of the professor’s mysterious demise. Mai visits Ryuji’s parents’ house to find the missing pages of his soon-to-be published article. There she is drawn to a curious videotape and a fate more terrifying than Ryuji or Kazuyuki Asakawa’s.

Reiko Sugiura questioned the purpose of bringing a child into a world where there was only death. She already lost one son, and the father of her unborn child, Kaoru Futami, had disappeared in search of a cure to the deadly disease that threatened all life. Despite Kaoru’s promise to meet again in two months, he has not returned. Despondent but driven for answers Reiko is led to the Loop project, where she will discover the final truths of the Ring virus.

David Suzuki’s autobiography limns a life dedicated to making the world a better place. The book expands on the early years covered in “Metamorphosis” and continues to the present, when, at age 70, Suzuki reflects on his entire life and his hopes for the future.

The book begins with his life-changing experience of racism interned in a World War II concentration camp, and goes on to discuss his teenage years, his college and postgraduate experiences in the U.S., and his career as a geneticist and then as the host of “The Nature of Things.”

With characteristic candor and passion, Suzuki describes how he became a leading environmentalist, writer, and thinker; the establishment of the David Suzuki Foundation; his world travels and meetings with luminaries like Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama; and the abiding role of nature and family in his life. David Suzuki is an intimate and inspiring look at a modern-day visionary.

Koji Suzuki returns to the genre he’s most famous for after many years of “not wanting to write any more horror.” As expected from Suzuki, the chills are of a more cerebral, psychological sort, arguably more unsettling and scary than the slice-and-dice gore fests that horror has become known in the U.S. Never content to simply do “Suzuki” — as it were — but rather push the envelope on what…

Pathologist Ando is at a low point in his life. His small son’s death from drowning has resulted in the break-up of his marriage and he is suffering traumatic nightmares. Work is his only escape, and his world is shaken up by a series of mysterious deaths that seem to be caused by a deadly virus.

Learn the final truth about the Ring!

In this much-awaited conclusion of the , everything you thought you knew about the story will have to be put side. In , the killer mimics both AIDS and cancer in a deadly new guise. Kaoru Futami, a youth mature beyond his years, must hope to find answers in the deserts of New Mexico and the Loop project, a virtual matrix created by scientists. The fate of more than just his loved ones depends on Kaoru's success.

Koji Suzuki was born in 1957 in Hamamatsu, southwest of Tokyo. He attended Keio University where he majored in French. After graduating he held numerous odd jobs, including a stint as a cram school teacher. Also a self-described jock, he holds a first-class yachting license and crossed the U.S., from Key West to Los Angeles, on his motorcycle.

The father of two daughters, Suzuki is a respected authority on childrearing and has written numerous works on the subject. He acquired his expertise when he was a struggling writer and househusband. Suzuki also has translated a children's book into Japanese, by the crime novelist Simon Brett.

In 1990, Suzuki's first full-length work, Paradise won the Japanese Fantasy Novel Award and launched his career as a fiction writer. , written with a baby on his lap, catapulted him to fame, and the multi-million selling sequels and cemented his reputation as a world-class talent. Often called the "Stephen King of Japan," Suzuki has played a crucial role in establishing mainstream credentials for horror novels in his country. He is based in Tokyo but loves to travel, often in the United States. is his sixth novel to appear in English.

Stunning, cutting-edge thriller with a chilling supernatural twist from Japan’s stylish new literary star.Asakawa is a hardworking journalist who has climbed his way up from local-news beat reporter to writer for his newspaper’s weekly magazine. A chronic workaholic, he doesn’t take much notice when his seventeen-year-old niece dies suddenly — until a chance conversation reveals that another healthy teenager died at exactly the same time, in chillingly similar circumstances.Sensing a story, Asakawa begins to investigate, and soon discovers that this strange simultaneous sudden-death syndrome also affected another two teenagers. Exactly one week before their mysterious deaths the four teenagers all spent the night at a leisure resort in the same log cabin.When Asakawa visits the resort, the mystery only deepens. A comment made in the guest book by one of the teenagers leads him to a particular videotape. When he watches it, instead of a movie he finds an odd collection of disparate images with a portentous message at the end: Those who have viewed these images are fated to die at this exact hour one week from now. Asakawa finds himself in a race against time — he has only seven days to find the cause of the teenagers’ deaths before it finds him. The hunt puts him on the trail of an apocalyptic power that will force Asakawa to choose between saving his family and saving civilization.

SUMMARY: “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line of Shunryu Suzuki’s classic. In a single stroke, the simple sentence cuts through the pervasive tendency students have of getting so close to Zen as to completely miss what it’s all about. An instant teaching on the first page. And that’s just the beginning. In the thirty years since its original publication, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind has become one of the great modern Zen classics, much beloved, much re-read, and much recommended as the best first book to read on Zen. Suzuki Roshi presents the basics — from the details of posture and breathing in zazen to the perception of nonduality — in a way that is not only remarkably clear, but that also resonates with the joy of insight from the first to the last page. It’s a book to come back to time and time again as an inspiration to practice.

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Thrillist, The Millions, Frieze, and Metropolis Japan The first English language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural icon In a future where men are contained in ghettoized isolation, women enjoy the fruits of a queer matriarchal utopia – until a boy escapes and a young woman’s perception of the world is violently interrupted. The last family in a desolate city struggles to approximate 20th century life on Earth, lifting what notions they can from 1960s popular culture. But beneath these badly learned behaviors lies an atavistic appetite for destruction. Two new friends enjoy drinks on a holiday resort planet where all is not as it seems, and the air itself seems to carry a treacherously potent nostalgia. Back on Earth, Emma’s not certain if her emotionally abusive, green-haired boyfriend is in fact an intergalactic alien spy, or if she’s been hitting the bottle and baggies too hard. At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki’s singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina. In these darkly playful and punky stories, the fantastical elements are always earthed by the universal pettiness of strife between the sexes, and the gritty reality of life on the lower rungs, whatever planet that ladder might be on.

Parecía otra leyenda urbana más: una cinta de vídeo llena de imágenes de pesadilla, a la que seguía una llamada de teléfono que predecía la muerte de quien había visto la cinta exactamente siete días después. El periodista Asakawa se siente muy escéptico ante el asunto hasta que descubre que cuatro adolescentes han conocido una muerte misteriosa justo una semana después de visionar la dichosa cinta. Impelida por su curiosidad profesional, Asakawa sigue la pista de la cinta... y la contempla. Ahora debe pedir ayuda a su amigo Ryuji si quiere salvar su vida y la de su hijo. Sólo tienen siete días para desentrañar el misterio de The Ring.

'En la mente del principiante hay muchas posibilidades; pero en la del experto hay pocas.' Así comienza uno de los libros más queridos sobre el Zen. Pocas veces un pequeño puñado de palabras como estas ha ofrecido una enseñanza tan fértil. De un plumazo, esa simple frase corta la perenne tendencia de los estudiantes a acercarse tanto al Zen que no ven en qué consiste éste. Una enseñanza instantánea en la primera página, y esto solo es el principio. En los cuarenta años que han transcurrido desde su publicación original, Mente zen, mente de principiante, se ha convertido en uno de los grandes clásicos de la espiritualidad moderna, muy querido, continuamente releído y profusamente recomendado como el mejor libro que se puede leer sobre el Zen. Suzuki Roshi presenta las bases -desde los detalles de la postura y la respiración en zazen hasta la percepción de la no dualidad- de un modo que, además de ser notablemente claro, resuena con la alegría de la comprensión desde la primera hasta la última página.

Some mysteries were never meant to be solved. Plot Outline: A mother and daughter, still wounded from a bitter custody dispute, hole up in a run-down apartment building. Adding further drama to their plight, they are targeted by the ghost of former resident. Plot Synopsis: Dahlia Williams is starting a new life; newly separated with a new job and a new apartment, she's determined to put her relationship with her estranged husband behind her and devote herself to raising her daughter, Ceci. But when the strained separation disintegrates into a bitter custody battle, her situation takes a turn for the worse. Her new apartment--dilapidated, cramped, and worn--seems to take on a life of its own. Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of dark water, and strange happenings cause her imagination to run wild, sending her on a puzzling and mystifying pursuit to find out who is behind the endless mind games. As Dahlia frantically searches for the links between the riddles, the dark water seems to close around her. But one thing trumps all others in Dahlia's world: no matter what it is that's out there, she'll stop at nothing to find it.