| “ | "Come on...Let's go home" | ” |
— Ikuma talking and reassuring sadako.
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Heihachiro Ikuma is a lover of Shizuko Yamamura and a stepfather of Sadako. In the books, he had an affair with Shizuko whilst working as a professor at Tokyo University. He gained tuberculosis after Shizuko's suicide whilst to activate possible psychic powers of his own and was hospitalized for many years. In the films, he cared for Sadako but locked her evil twin away for years. He eventually tossed her down the well after both girls reunited and killed numerous people. He died shortly after. Heihachiro Ikuma is Sadako's presumed father (biological father in the book), though the Japanese films strongly hint to her siring by an oceanic supernatural being. He cares for Sadako after Shizuko dies, and, in the novel, succumbs to the smallpox virus shortly after Sadako is thrown in the well by Nagao. In the films, he fears his daughter's malevolent powers.
Ring 0: Birthday elaborates on the events leading up to his attempted murder of Sadako: it is revealed that Sadako split into two beings--a timid, benign girl and an evil psychic. He allows the gentle Sadako to grow and attend school while keeping the evil Sadako locked away, feeding her growth-inhibiting hormones to keep her in the form of a child. At the climax of Ring 0, the two Sadakos merge, and Heihachiro injects her with poison before hitting her with an axe and disposing of her in the ensuing struggle by throwing her down the well. (in the original he hits her over the head while she is looking down the well)
History[]
Ikuma's history is unknown.
Plot[]
1947[]
Ikuma is intrigued by the psychic abilities of his patient (Shizuko Yamamura), a fascination that soon has the married Ikuma entering into an affair with her. When Shizuko conceives, she returns to Oshima in order to spare Ikuma from possible scandal. Later that year, Sadako is born. Shizuko entrusts the child to her grandmother to return to Tokyo and reunite with her lover.
Death[]
Ikuma died with a disease.
Trivia[]
- Nagao Jotaro was replaced by Ikuma. During, he killed Sadako.
- In the cursed tape, ikuma is the person looking into the well.