Sadako's cultural appearance is of a woman in a white dress with long black hair covering her face, and pale skin. She is a Onryō or a vergeful ghost with the soul of those who died with extreme hatred, as she seek vengeance against the world for her traumatic past. She is silence and never speaks, but it myth that she is unavailable talk, she can, but she chose to stay silent. She possess the curse tape, and anyone who watch it, will died in seven days while the tape shows a well, unless they copy and show it to someone else. When the Seven days are up, she normally crawl out a well on the screen and crawl out the screen to kill the victim, but rarely she can end the victim without being there. Her long black hair cover her face, but she can kill the victims with her eye stare. Sadako is very powerful, inheriting her psychic powers from her mother, This allows her to create the videotape while trapped in the well. Her psychic powers also allow her to manipulate DNA and viruses. The cursed tape allows her to appear as a ghost and extend her Nensha powers to others.