zombiefan89 It's hard to scare me. It really is! I laughed at Ringu (Invert COLOR = DEATH!!) and giggled at the Grudge.(MEOW!) But this movie really hit all the right notes for me! I was literally on the edge of my seat towards the climax! The ending is a bit weird, but I haven't seen two or three yet, so maybe they'll explain it. The characters are likable although a bit generic. There's the previous victim's relative, the helpless girl lead character, and the other lambs for the slaughter. So, characters...not so great. I love how bizarre Japanese horror movies get! There were several scenes, I don't know if it was the different culture, but the ghosts did some weird stuff!

DigitalRevenantX7 PLOT OUTLINE: A group of friends are shocked when they start receiving voicemail messages on their cell phones from themselves 72 hours in the future. As the time that each message arrives, the recipient is killed by a malevolent entity seeking retribution for their death.One Missed Call is one of a spate of Japanese horror films (commonly known as J-Horror) that came out in the late 1990s / early 2000s. The genre was kicked off by Hideo Nakata's ridiculously successful RING, which set up the clichés that all the other films, including this one, follow almost to the letter.As far as horror films go, this particular one is nothing special. In some respects, it is a bit of a disappointment, mainly due to the fact that its director, Takeshi Miike, is capable of making some really individualistic films that can be fairly compared to the works of Shinya Tsukamoto. One Missed Call follows the Ring formula almost to the letter – there is a technologically-minded curse (in this case cell phones) where the owner of the device is given a warning & a deadline before they are killed. To be fair, Ring was not that good a film, but it did have an atmosphere that was creepy & unearthly. This film doesn't even have that, not to mention the fact that, at nearly two hours long, it overstays its welcome. There is the occasional moment which suggests a work of promise – one of the victims meets her fate in a television studio – but for all intensive purposes, One Missed Call is dead on arrival.The execs at Hollywood conducted a remake some years later, which was actually quite better than this original.

Tokyo-1997 This movie is my Top J-Horror Movie. The pacing of this movie was perfect. Takashi Miike manages to create a creepy atmosphere throughout this entire film. What makes this film unique is that the ghost actually turns out to be a young girl. Some people complain about the ending, but I felt that the ending was done pretty well and unexpected. The actress that plays Yumi does her role very well. There were a lot of scary scenes in this movie. The movie starts of with slightly scary and then extremely frightening throughout the second half of the movie. There was one frightening scene in the middle of this movie that probably would be the most frightening scene in cinematographic history. There were a lot of times the scary scenes make me jump when I was watching this movie. Takashi Miike is my favourite director. I found Chakushin ari to be even more effective than ringu. The terrifying parts of Chakushin ari are shown mainly at night that builds a lot of terror and fear. Another scene I really wanted to comment in this movie is the TV scene which one of Yumi's friends just get twisted and twisted. This film is very well paced because only after a few minutes after the beginning of the film, terror starts to begin. This keeps people glued to the screen right from the beginning of the film. To me, there are pratically no flaws in this film. I thought this film is just a perfect piece of horror. Some scenes such as the horrific mirror scene where the reflection of Yumi just turns out to be mimiko is just fantastic. The ending is also very memorable, if you understand the ending. The ending is so unexpected that the ending for this movie could be the best ending any movie would have. Unlike ringu, which relies on only one scary scene, or ju-on which is a little too fast paced, Chakushin ari is just perfect and the scary scenes in the movie are just shown in so many different ways. The elevator scene, to me was probably the scariest elevator scene in any horror movie. I thought the elevator scene was also scarier than Dark Water. This movie will keep you entertained and glued to the screen right from the start to the end credits. This movie is extremely highly recommended. Score:10/10 I thought this was the best horror movie out of all the horror movies that have been made in the entire world. Storyline: 9/10 Scene: 10/10 Horror: 10/10 Overall: 10/10 I recommend all J-horror fans to watch this movie. Watch this movie if you like shows like Ringu. If you would like to know the ending, Yumi gets killed by Mimiko and Mimiko enters Yumi's body.Yumi shares the same grudge as Mimiko. Yumi's confrontation with the ghost caused her to gain her true self. Yumi stabs Yamashita san so that Yamashita San can fall into the same sky as her when she dies(with mimiko still inside her body.) Yamashita san accepts Yumi's love and allows Yumi to stab him. The ending can be viewed as a happy and sad one. The ending is a happy one because they get to fall in the same sky together. The ending, being sad because Yumi was not able to escape from her fate of being killed though she spent one whole night to stop the curse. Yumi still has to die in the end. I thought this was the best horror movie ever made in the world.

alma-42 A very visually-pleasing traditional J-Horror flick, with Miike's signature criticism of the state of family and domestic decaying, without delving deeper philosophically nor psychologically of course.What makes most of the Japanese horror film industry appealing is its capability of delivering suspense and actually building a compelling atmosphere while not relying much on seat-jumpers and Hollywood scares, as well as keeping up with non-linear time-line, fragmentation, and other experimental techniques. Such characteristic, sadly, have been gradually abandoned and tolerated with as the exposure on the US market grows.Acting was campy, which is a very strange yet amusing aspect in almost all of the Miike Corpus (except for Oudishon, perhaps, with its pleasing cast and the legendary Ishibashi Ryo.) What speaks in Miike's work is in fact Miike Takashi himself and his visionary talent. Such genius could be seen from the fanatic extravaganza media frenzy in Natsumi (Fukiishi Kazue)'s arc, notably the live exorcism scene.Rich cinematography and decent sounds. Clever deployment of the ring-tone device worked positively for progressing and building up without being overly redundant and jejune.