Sadako Yamamura (山村 貞子 Yamamura Sadako) is the main antagonist in the novel Ringu, by Koji Suzuki. and the 1998 film adaptation; She also appears as an antagonist in the story's respective literary and film sequels and serves as the model for the antagonists of the Korean and American remakes of the The Ring cycle films, albeit as different characters. In the original novel, Sadako is a powerful hermaphrodite psychic while in the movies, it is hinted that she is the daughter of a human woman and supernatural oceanic entity. Her name combines the Japanese words for "caste" (sada) and "child" (ko).
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As a ghost, Sadako is a woman whose face is hidden behind her long, black hair, leaving only one of her eyes visible, which is disproportionately open and bulging. She is often seen coming out of a television screen, right after a depiction of her coming out of her well. This aspect is typical of the yūrei, a kind of Japanese ghost tied to the physical world through strong emotions that do not allow them to enter the other world. Specifically, Sadako is a type of yūrei known as an Onryō, united by a desire for vengeance. In the novels, she is described, in life, as a young woman of extraordinary beauty that causes admiration for being a woman with such perfect features, with a thin and stylized nose, fine eyes, a deep but attractive voice, symmetrically exact features. , thin lips that made a subtle merciless grin, a height of less than 160 centimeters, long hair, perfectly shaped small breasts, and milky-white skin, all complemented by a calm demeanor, silent personality, and gestures as innocent as adorable. Even so, although Sadako's beauty dazzled and enchanted whoever saw her, everyone eventually felt an instinctive discomfort from her presence and it was this feeling that lingered in people's memories more than her beauty. As explained in the novel, although Sadako from birth possessed the appearance and practically all the physical characteristics of a woman, biologically she was a male since she suffered from testicular feminization, a type of male pseudohermaphroditism, the only visual evidence of this being a sac. scrotal located above the pubis; androgens are generally present even in the female body, having a certain degree of influence on the physical development and features of women, although much more tenuous than in men, but in the case of Sadako it is a picture of resistance to androgens so radical that they had absolutely no influence on her physical development, for this reason, in part, Sadako's peculiar beauty is due to the fact that her features are totally feminine, beyond what even women themselves come to possess.