ONE MISSED CALL
A high school student Yumi Nakamura (Kou Shibasaki) is having a drink with a group of friends. While some his partner, Yoko, receives a call to your phone with a strange tone I had heard before. The display reads "One Missed Call." When reading the message, not only seems to come from their own mobile phones but also contains a terrible cry that sounds exactly like Yoko's voice. Also, for his curiously named confusion is dated three days later.
Just three days after the exact time, and uttering the same cry, Yoko is thrown into a certain death from the bridge of a railway. Some days later, another person of the party, Kenji, receives a call from your own number from the future. The message also contains a blood-curdling scream. Kenji also died at the appointed time after issuing the same cry.
a victim. This time is the best friend Yumi, Natsumi Konishi (Kazue Fukiishi). She receives a call with the same tone frightening. The message containing this time also a chilling video.
Knowing that is doomed, Natsumi collapses. Ignoring the pleas of Yumi, you agree to go out on a live TV program when the call signaling in a desperate attempt to exorcise its consequences. Yumi, desperate to reach the merits, is allied with the lonely funeral director, Hiroshi Yamashita (Shinichi Tsutsumi), who lost her sister in similar circumstances. Both begin to trace the trail of deaths.
Meanwhile, the moment of truth approaches Natsumi. Live, on national television, right on schedule, Natsumi dies horribly. While Yumi and Yamashita seen his body destroyed, Yumi's phone starts ringing.
One
missed call (Chakushin ari)
Director: Takashi Miike .
Country: Japan.
Year: 2003.
Length: 112 min
Gender: Terror.
Starring: Kou Shibasaki (Yumi Nakamura), Shinichi Tsutsumi (Hiroshi Yamashita), Kazue Fukiishi (Natsumi Konishi), Atsushi Ida (Kenji), Renji Ishibashi (Motomiya), Goro Kishitani (Oka), Anna Nagata (Yoko Okazaki ), Mariko Tsusui (Marie Mizunuma).
Writer: Miwako Daira, based on the novel by Yasushi Akimoto.
Production: Naoki Sato, Yoichi Arishige and Fumio Inoue.
Music: Koji Endo.
Photography: Hideo Yamamoto.
Assembly: Yasushi Shimamura.
production designer, Hisao Inagaki.
Release in Japan: January 17, 2004.