fedor8 Yet another Japanese horror flick about a LONG-HAIRED FEMALE GHOST slaughtering people. Once the Japanese get stuck on a shtick, they never ever let go, do they. It's a shame, because there are talented directors in the Land of The Rising Long-Haired Female Ghosts, but the scripts tend to be nearly always clones of one another. After all, the Japanese aren't known for originality.You gotta love the Japanese though. A girl has just inadvertently killed her own boyfriend (who had attacked her, because possessed by a ghost), and what do her parents do upon picking her up from the police station? They berate her for not taking her school seriously enough. You'd never see this in a Western movie, which is just one of the many reasons why Japanese films are so weird.A bracelet won't come off – AND your wrist is turning purple and blue underneath it? Ever thought about going to an emergency room? Whether this is a dumb aspect of a badly written film or perhaps something closely related to Japanese culture, I simply don't know. Perhaps it would have been "shameful" for the teeny-bopper to have gone to a doctor "just" for a stuck bracelet and a hand that looks as if it's in advanced stages of gangrene. After all, what's amputation compared to the loss of "face"? What's a little limb-loss compared to being shunned? Meanwhile, the train-station guard is busy covering up all his knowledge about the ghost – just so he can have his crappy job back. It's not as if though he is trying to get back a job as a CEO or something, but as a train-driver, so his stubbornness and unwillingness to help the girls solve the mystery of a fast-climbing number of disappearances (including kids, no less) hits a distinct "duh" note for me. Again, perhaps this is just a Japanese thing: career and social status take precedence over human life, I just don't know.Eventually, the former train-driver not only joins the effort to solve the mystery, but actually blows up the entrance to Hell (or whatever it is), thinking that this way he'd solved the problem. But did he? Once that station is cleared up of all the rubble (and knowing Japanese expediency, it wouldn't take long) there is no reason why construction workers won't be finding that demonic "entrance" again. Which brings us to the possibility of a sequel. Is there one? I'm not interested.The BFF sub-plot about the blossoming – and very sudden – friendship between the female protagonist (an awful actress, BTW) and the bracelet-hating teenie-bopper is utterly stupid and completely out-of-place, and comes off as an intrusion perpetrated by a neighbouring teen-drama movie-set.

Scarecrow-88 "I want what's mine." A little boy named Takashi picks up a train pass off of the sidewalk and is told by a creepy specter that he will die for doing so. On board a train(all alone which is a no-no), Takashi is carried away from inside the train when it stops temporarily(due to a woman standing on the tracks)setting up the story for GHOST TRAIN. A rookie subway train conductor, Shunichi(Shun Oguri), continues to see the mangled body of a woman, yet when he tells his boss he's considered a little "off in the head" and reduced to working in the station house until he gets his head on straight. Nana(Erika Sawajiri) is the big sister to one of Takashi's classmates, Noriko. Noriko finds the pass and winds up missing. Nana and Noriko's mom has a serious heart problem. Shigeru finds a bracelet while he and some students are riding the subway home and gives it to Kanae(Chinatsu Wakatsuki) as a token of their potential relationship. This bracelet seals the fate of those who touched it like the train pass. Mizunashi tunnel is the place which seems to have been the setting for the fate of the ghost showing up to "kidnap" victims who turn up on "missing persons" boards due to the fact that they were last seen near the subway station. Through all this a friendship develops between Nana and Kanae. A young woman named Yaeko, whose name is on the train pass returned to lost and found over and over, could be responsible. Kawamura also works in the station house, and may know more than he lets on about Yaeko. Kanae narrowly escapes certain death thanks to Kumi(Aya Sugimoto),a woman who lost her son(and eye)to Yaeko. While Nana pursues the mystery in regards to Yaeko, and attempt to find her sister, she'll make another startling revelation within the tunnel, a secret buried deep. The ending is sentimental and saccharine as the power of love and friendship are embellished as Nana faces all sorts of peril and will need the help of others if she is to escape with Takashi intact trying to evade a whole mass of ghouls crawling all throughout the cavernous walls towards them. Shunichi will assist Nana in operating the train as the trio must avoid the ghouls as they descend upon them. What separates this from the formula Onyro films is that the final result strays away from the usual "appeasing the ghost by reconnecting her to whatever has kept her spirit restless all this time since death" because something even more sinister lies inside the walls of the tunnels. A heavy dependence on CGI is quite visible throughout, but Yaeko is quite a creepy presence, particularly in one scene where her reflection appears following Noriko on a window, recorded from a camera in the subway.

Arirang2009 To start with, i would like to say something about Asian horror movies in general. Like the westerns horror culture; the Asians got their own style on their horrors; as we have seen under the years which has passed; Long hair, cellphones, nails, small kid (almost always boys) and girls dressed in white. White means "Death" in many Asian cultures, as Black in our culture often refers to death.In Western we got serial killers that rapes women or killers that enjoy killing teenagers after their beer-party mixed with characters that looks like been picked directly from a Play Boy paper. So there's two stereotypes in the Horror movie culture we have on both side of the globe.This particular move we're gonna talk about, is indeed a bit of a Asian stereotype movie - but it also have some parts that makes it a bit unusual. Many views here has judge it as a bad movie, which i think could be a bit of a miss-leading and unfair. The plot of this movie wasn't all about to scare the soul out of your body; it had a undergoing line in it's story; friendship. By that i don't mean that kind of friendship that all Asian horror movies seem to love to show up; a bunch of kids that bullying one other; or fails the other one. This showed a lot of times, the great fear of loosing one you keep very close to the heart; and also how someone want to become friend and actually succeed - if only for a short time. That is actually very rare in Asian horror movies. And there between all the ghostlike things happens. The only thing that really destroyed the movie was when Kanae died - in order to save Nana's life from the hunted tunnel. However; that "mistake" to brag Kanae her life by a very stupid accident, Director Takeshi Furusawa made up well for at the very end of the movie. By shutting down the sound and just let the moment go between Kanae and Nana gave me creeps - not of fear, but of sympathy for real friendship. For me, that made the whole movie. As a horror movie, it didn't really worked. I got the feeling of watching a TV-series, and that Takeshi Furusawa was a bit of a "beginner" when it comes to real acting. The CGI could have been better. But, the idea behind the story was good - even better than One Missed Call. Everyone says it's a regular Japanese horror movie, but if you look at the details, it isn't a very regular story after all. First of all, almost whole movie, was filmed inside or around a train station. It wasn't that much screaming and spacey sounds, or strange "burps" from ghosts. No ghost coming out from TVs. Or hair that grows with the speed of light. Or for that matter; small white painted boys/girls; it was actually very sparse with that in this movie. Takeshi Furusawa has seen lot of movies and based the design on this movie from that; but he got a story that after a bit of polishing and construction could have been a fantastic movie. It isn't too many Japanese horror movies that actually has train as a main "line"; and it is very few J-horror movies that i've seen (or any Asian horror movies for that matter) where two friends actually becomes friends, where the other one is a "bad guy".Here's what this movie have, that all other H-movies from Asia ones DON'T have: Train as main "line". Succeeded friendship (No failures, revenge or bullying). Cellphones that DON'T causes deaths. A Guy that really does take actions against "the problem" at the end - and succeed. A touch of realism, even tho it's a ghost story. And it's probably the first movie i've seen that the School students wearing Different types of uniforms in the very same classroom! My grades: Over all: 5/10 Horror: 3/10 Dialogues: 4/10 Acting: 4/10 Story: 6/10 CGI: 4/10 Ending: 8/10Thanks for me! Enjoy the movie - try to see it from a different point of view!

HumanoidOfFlesh Oh gosh,I'm really fed up with all these generic Japanese horror films about long-haired female ghosts and ghostly kids."Ghost Train" is no exception.It is clearly influenced by "Ringu","Ju-On","Shutter" and "Pulse".Two years ago I was into such modern ghost stories,because they usually managed to give me some goosebumps,unfortunately there is nothing fresh or interesting in "Ghost Train".In fact the film is really boring.Noriko goes missing in a subway tunnel-like an elementary-school classmate-Nana must investigate a mystery of multiple disappearances,with the help of a youthful train conductor and another "disappeared" child's mother.The film offers some mildly creepy moments,however the CGI effects are laughable and the climax is illogical.Skip it.