the night watchman
03-10-2003, 05:27 PM
In "Ringu," when Reiko and Yoichi attend Tomoko's wake, Yoichi kneels in a room with some older men where a photo of Tomoko hangs. He looks at the photo and points to his forehead, between the eyes. Does anyone know whether this gesture has some sort of meaning in Japanese culture, or if it is simply unique to the movie -- i.e. Yoichi is signifying the opening of a psychic "third eye" as some sort of communication with his dead cousin?