Kidskycom
It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.
Helllins
It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.
Jerrie
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
Kayden
This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama
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.
Tokyo-1997
This is a relatively nice movie for me. This movie deals a lot with friendship among two people, and really does remind me of One Missed Call Final. This movie is original. The entertaining scenes takes place in a train station. The opening scene in this movie is scary. I like the plot used in this movie. I like the cave like setting of this movie. I don't know why this movie is rated so low. The cave like setting for this movie and the use of the train station in this movie is very original. I love the ending in this movie. This movie is a little touching as well. However, there are flaws in this movie. The acting in this movie is a little poor. The GCI effects were very poor except for the last ten minutes. The whole movie was not scary at all. There were only two scenes that were scary. Tension and fear was not built very well in this movie. This movie becomes very melodramatic at times, and its pacing becomes just as slow as a snail,especially the scene where the girl calls her friend using the hand phone. This movie is one of the least scariest Japanese horror movies, but not the worst definitely. This movie shows that a good movie need not be scary. This movie is really entertaining and has some very interesting ideas, like the use of the bracelet being stuck to one of the girl's hand. The train station scene in this movie is nowhere as creepy or spooky as The Red Shoes. This movie is entertaining, though not as great as some of the other J-horrors such as Ringu, Ju-on or One Missed Call.
morgaine87
I didn't understood about that the woman without the eye (forgot the name) was the baby on the rails.. What did she had to do with that ghost girl (also forgot the name) who killed everybody? Nana said: so, you killed your own mother.. And then the woman without the eye said: now I can finally see my son. But who was her mother? The ghost girl? You saw that when the ghost girl was still alive she got pushed downstairs on the train, but by whom and why? And how did the baby came on the rails? I really didn't got that. And I also don't think that the baby pushed her down.. It looked like a normal hand. Later it appears she was also just a victim and obviously not the 'big source' of all. But who started this all? Who put all those people there on one pile?
kevn57
I don't generally like horror movies, I absolutely hate slasher stuff and the real gory horror movies too. But I occasionally do enjoy a good Japanese horror movie because most are long on suspense and pretty low on gore. The Ring and Ju-on being prime examples. I gave this one a try because two of my favorite stars are in it Oguri Shun and Sawajiri Erika, they were good but the movie in general is nothing special. One really cool thing about it though is that it used some of HP Lovecraft Cthulhu Mythos, a carved relief in a subway tunnel and Erika's character is looking to goto school abroad at the Miskatonic University.