People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, foretelling their deaths.People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, foretelling their deaths.People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, foretelling their deaths.
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- TriviaDuring the opening credit sequence, one of the cell phone ring-tones is the theme song from an earlier Takashi Miike film, Gozu (2003).
- GoofsYumi arrives at the abandoned hospital at 6:45 p.m. on April 24, and it's nighttime. On that date, sunset in Japan ranges from around 6:20 p.m. Japan Standard Time in the east, near Tokyo, to around 6:55 p.m. in the west, near Nagasaki. Depending on what part of Japan she is in, it should be daytime or twilight outside, not full dark.
- Quotes
Yoko Okazaki: Oh no, it's raining.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Chakushin ari meikingu: Chakushin rireki (2003)
- SoundtracksIkutsuka no Sora
(Few Skies)
Vocal by Kô Shibasaki (as Kou Shibasaki)
Written by Yasushi Akimoto
Composed by Jin Nakamura
Arranged by Chokkaku
Universal J / Chimera Energy
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The Call from Death
While in a bar with her friends, the teenager Yoko Okazaki (Anna Nagata) receives a call in her cellular with a voice mail from the future telling the date and time when she would die. On the next day, Yumi overhears a group of students talking about the urban legend that people connected in the address book of cellular are mysteriously receiving phone calls with date and time of their death in the near future. In the precise informed hour, Yoko is attacked by a supernatural force in a train station while talking to her friend Yumi Nakamura (Kou Shibasaki) by phone and dies with severed arm and leg. Yumi seeks out Kioto's boyfriend Kenji Kawai (Atsushi Ida), who also received a call, and witnesses his death in an elevator shaft. When her roommate Natsumi Konishi (Kazue Fukiishi) receives a call, Yoko befriends Hiroshi Yamashita (Shin'ichi Tsutsumi), who tells her that his sister Ritsuko (Azusa) that worked in the Child Guidance Center with abused children was the first victim of the phone call. While in the hospital, Yumi hears an asthma pump and recalls that she heard the same noise when Kenji died. They decide to investigate victims of asthma in the hospital and find the name of Marie Mizunuma and her daughters Mimiko and Nanako. They search the family together trying to save Natsumi from her fate.
"Chakushin Ari" is scary like most of the Asian horror movies, and has a promising beginning supported by a great acting and a good plot. However, the last quarter of the movie is confused, not clear, needing interpretation; therefore, the screenplay writer Minako Daira or the cult director Takashi Miike or both failed since they were not able to transmit a clear conclusion of the story to the audience. I glanced in IMDb the most different interpretations for the end of the story to ratify my opinion. My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): "Ligação Perdida" ("Missed Call")
"Chakushin Ari" is scary like most of the Asian horror movies, and has a promising beginning supported by a great acting and a good plot. However, the last quarter of the movie is confused, not clear, needing interpretation; therefore, the screenplay writer Minako Daira or the cult director Takashi Miike or both failed since they were not able to transmit a clear conclusion of the story to the audience. I glanced in IMDb the most different interpretations for the end of the story to ratify my opinion. My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): "Ligação Perdida" ("Missed Call")
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- Gross worldwide
- $17,605,379
- Runtime1 hour 52 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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