There wasn't much violence because most of the major deaths happened mentally including possessing and frightening visions which can be found disturbing. Because of that reason there isn't much gore but there is a major suicide and a particularly harsh animal death and multiple sad connections to that scene.
The enthusiasm around J-horror remakes may have been short-lived, but the core of what made The Ring so frightening in 2002 and what made the novel and original film such disturbing portraits of societal collapse in '90s Japan is the transferable nature of the death sentence, which makes even the victims ...