Minako Daira Movies
The One Missed Call series winds to a terrifying conclusion as a fearful schoolgirl attempts to save her friends by breaking the cell-phone curse. Bullied by her classmates into missing a field trip to Korea, timid Asuka plots revenge as her best friend Emily prepares for the exciting excursion. When the fabled "Ring Tone of Death" begins emitting from her classmate's cell phones and the body count begins to multiply, Emily desperately searches for a means of breaking the deadly cycle. The only way of avoiding death is to forward the call to someone else, but who is truly deserving of such a grim fate? ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Maki Horikita, Meisa Kuroki, (more)
When the curse from director Takashi Miike's wildly popular 2003 chiller mutates to seek out the cell-phone users thought they had outsmarted it, a journalist and her friends must to travel to Taiwan and seek out the source of the deadly mystery before the horror goes global. The terror started when the phone rang and the receiving party would bear audible witness to their own violent demise, only to come face-to-face with their ultimate doom mere moments later. Now the curse has infected the phone books of its victims, calling every number and spreading death and chaos across all of Asia. Upon uncovering the malevolent source of the deadly calls, the race is on to stop the nightmarish cycle as it rapidly begins to spread out of control. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Visionary horror film director Takashi Miike delivers a typically stylish and idiosyncratic scare-fest with this thriller. Yumi Nakamura (Kou Shibasaki) is a mildly paranoid young woman whose good friend, Yoko, receives a strange and mysterious call on her cell phone. The phone's read-out says that the call came from Yoko's own number, but from three days into the future; 72 hours later, Yoko dies in a bizarre accident moments after getting the same call over again. Yumi learns that Yoko isn't the only person to have had this experience; the spirit of a vengeful woman has been creeping into people's cell phones, and one by one is taking the lives of the folks in their internal telephone books. As Yumi struggles to solve the mystery of how and why this could be happening before someone else dies, she discovers the story has more to do with her than she imagined. Chakushin Ari was a major box-office success in Japan, where leading lady Kou Shibasaki is a popular recording artist as well as an actress. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Kou Shibasaki, Shinichi Tsutsumi, (more)
Shannyn Sossamon and Ed Burns star in director Eric Valette's remake of Takashi Miike's frightful tale about a cell-phone call from the future that foreshadows one's own death. Beth Raymond (Sossamon) is a college student whose friends have all been dying in droves, and the one connecting factor between all of the incidents is that just before their deaths, each of the victims received a message in which they heard themselves being murdered. Upon receiving her own frightening phone call, Beth has only three days to solve the mystery and cheat death. Burns co-stars as a detective who is deeply troubled by the recent spate of deaths. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Shannyn Sossamon, Edward Burns, (more)
