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As the mysterious phone curse spreads, claiming more young lives, Yoko s friend Yumi (Ko Shibasaki, Battle Royale, 47 Ronin) joins forces with detective Hiroshi (Shinichi Tsutsumi, Space Battleship Yamato), whose sister met the same gruesome fate. Two days later, she dies in a horrific rail collision. The mobile as a gadget is the perfect filter for reality, while ironically it is also the source of the deadly curse which brings about the death of the characters.In the first installment in the trilogy, 2003 s One Missed Call, student Yoko (Anna Nagata, Battle Royale) receives a phone message from her future self, ending with her own death scream. Whenever the conversation refers to emotional themes or physical as well as psychological trauma, there is a growing sense of apprehension since it is possibly too direct and personal.

Jumping from topics such as trauma and abuse – another constant theme within the film’s narrative – to the plans for the coming weekend, you may see the omnipresent urge to be distracted, to not get too involved. In one of the first scenes, the shot of the friend’s mobiles placed next to each other is mirrored by them sitting around the table in the restaurant. In “One Missed Call”, Miike seems to play with the paradox of being connected and disconnected at the same time, with the characters, while being able to communicate with one another more freely and more often, share a certain emotional distance with their environment.

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If you can free yourself from viewing “One Missed Call” as a lesser version of “Ring”, its concept of technology and its dangers has its merits, especially since the kind of cell phone technology shown in the film has not aged quite as badly as the version of the internet as presented in Kurosawa’s “Pulse”. However, that is not to say Miike’s direction or Minako Daira’s script do not have certain interesting aspects. In that context, it is also a rather inferior entry within the J-horror genre blending the kind of dread and apocalyptic tone from “Ring” with the skepticism regarding technology, which defined the works by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, albeit without quite reaching the quality of these works. And while you can debate about the extent, there is no denying “ One Missed Call” sounds and feels like a lesser version of “ Ring”.

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For obvious reasons, film and novel have been, somewhat unfavorably, compared to the “Ring” series based on the novels by Koji Suzuki, as well as its masterful adaptation by director Hideo Nakata.

Buy ThisTitleīased on the novel of the same title by Japanese writer Yasushi Akimoto, Takashi Miike’s adaptation tells the story about a supernatural curse spreading through technology. At the same time the events have gotten the media’s attention and while her friend is searching for a way to prevent her death, Natsumi prepares to appear on television where a host aims to capture on camera what is supposedly a paranormal event. When her best friend Natsumi (Kazue Fukiishi) receives another call, Yumi and Yamashita ( Shinichi Tsutsumi), a detective investigating what he assumes is a series of murders, attempt to find out more about the strange curse and its background. Soon after her friend’s death another friend of hers dies after having received a similar message. The message consisted of her scream followed by what the two girls assumed would be her death. Just days ago, at a restaurant, her friend missed a call, which, as she found out, was from her own number, but which was dated two days in advance.

One night the relatively ordinary life of college student Yumi ( Kou Shibasaki) is violently disturbed when one of her friends dies.

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