One Missed Call (2003) Chakushin ari (original title)

Director:

Takashi Miike

Writers:

Yasushi Akimoto (novel)
Minako Daira (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

17 January 2004 (Japan)

Genre:

Horror | Mystery

Tagline:

Death cannot be put on hold...

Plot:

People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths.

Plot Keywords:

Death | Message | Sound | Hospital | Asthma

Cast

Kô Shibasaki	...	Yumi Nakamura
Shin'ichi Tsutsumi	...	Hiroshi Yamashita
Kazue Fukiishi	...	Natsumi Konishi
Anna Nagata	...	Yoko Okazaki
Atsushi Ida	...	Kenji Kawai
Mariko Tsutsui	...	Marie Mizunuma
Kumiko Imai
Keiko Tomita
Kayoko Fujii
Yoshiko Noda
Azusa	...	Ritsuko Yamashita
Tetsushi Tanaka
Mitsuhiro Sato
Kaoru Hanaki
Hassei Takano
Koji Yazawa
Daisuke Iijima
Minori Fujikura
Shoichi Kamiya
Mika Yagisawa
Karen Oshima	...	Mimiko Mizunuma
Sena Shimuzu
Sakuya Yamada
Kohei Yoshida
Shinnosuke Abe
Noriko Eguchi
Saeko
Kiyomi Kobayashi
Yuna Mikuni		(as Yuna Mikunu)
Megumi Okada
Erena
Atsuko Murakawa
Kosuke Kimoto
Kana Ito
Akira Matsuda
Yorihito Kinouchi
Yasuhi Nakamura
Masanobu Matsuda
Barae Tagaki
Sachiko Isarai
Ken'ichi Endô
Yutaka Matsushige	...	Ichiro Fujieda
Gorô Kishitani	...	Oka
Renji Ishibashi	...	Motomiya
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mia Bradly	...	Nanako Mizunuma (voice: English version)
Joe Cappelletti	...	Oka (voice: English version)
Sam Carr	...	Hitomi (voice: English version)
Kate Davis	...	Yumi Nakamura (voice: English version)
Peter Doyle	...	Senoo (voice: English version)
Barbara Goodson	...	Mrs. Nakamura (voice: English version)
Michael McConnohie	...	Motomiya (voice: English version)
Liam O'Brien	...	Hiroshi Yamashita (voice: English version)
Sam Regal	...	Kenji (voice: English version)
Stephanie Sheh	...	Natsumi Konishi (voice: English version)
Steve Staley	...	Phone Salesman (voice: English version)
Doug Stone	...	Masakazu Hirayama (voice: English version)
Kim Strauss	...	Fujieda (voice: English version)
Karen Thompson	...	Voicemail (voice: English version)
Cristina Valenzuela	...	Ritsuko Mimiko (voice: English version)

Directed by
Takashi Miike

Writing credits
Yasushi Akimoto		(novel)
Minako Daira		(screenplay)
Alex Von David

Produced by
Yoichi Arishige	....	producer
Fumio Inoue	....	producer
Kazuo Kuroi	....	executive producer
Hiroshi Okawa	....	co-executive producer
Naoki Sato	....	producer

Original Music by
Kôji Endô

Cinematography by
Hideo Yamamoto

Film Editing by
Yasushi Shimamura

Casting by
Kaeko Sakamoto

Production Design by
Hisao Inagaki

Makeup Department
Etsuko Egawa	....	special makeup effects artist

Production Management
Christian Alexander Moran	....	post-production manager (english version)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Bunmei Katô	....	assistant director (as Fumiaki Katô)

Sound Department
Christian Alexander Moran	....	sound editor (english version)
Deb Munini	....	adr engineer
Atsushi Nakamura	....	sound
Kevin Patzelt	....	sound editor
Mark A. Rozett	....	sound re-recording mixer

Production Companies

• Kadokawa-Daiei Eiga K.K.

Distributors

• 3L Filmverleih (2005) (Germany) (theatrical)
• 3L Filmverleih (2006) (Austria) (theatrical)
• ABL Augusta (Spain) (theatrical)
• Bright Angel Distribution (2004) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista International (2004) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Columbia Pictures (2004) (Philippines) (theatrical)
• Future Film (2004) (Finland) (theatrical)
• Kino Bez Granits (2004) (Russia) (theatrical)
• LNK Audiovisuais (2005) (Portugal) (theatrical)
• Media Blasters (2005) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Metropolitan Filmexport (2005) (France) (theatrical)
• Mikado (2004) (Italy) (theatrical)
• Toho Company (Japan) (theatrical)
• Another World Entertainment (2006) (Denmark) (DVD)
• Filmax Home Video (2005) (Spain) (DVD)
• Filmax (2004) (Spain) (all media)
• JUDO/films (2004) (Mexico) (all media)
• Kadokawa Eiga K.K. (2004) (Japan) (DVD)
• NonStop Entertainment (Sweden)
• Notro Films (2005) (Spain) (all media)
• Rialto Entertainment (2005) (Australia) (DVD)
• SBP (2005) (Argentina) (DVD)
• SBP (2005) (Argentina) (VHS)
• Tokyo Shock (2005) (USA) (DVD)
• Total Film Home Entertainment (2005) (Netherlands) (DVD) (rental)
• Total Film Home Entertainment (2006) (Netherlands) (DVD) (retail)
• Transformer (2003) (Japan) (DVD)
• Video Audio Project (VAP) (2004) (Japan) (DVD)
• Vivarto (2006) (Poland) (all media)
• e-m-s the DVD-Company (2006) (Germany) (DVD)

Special Effects

• OLM Digital (CGI)

Also Known As:

"Chakushin ari" - Japan (original title)
"You've Got a Call" - Japan (English title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, disturbing images and brief nudity

Runtime:

Japan:112 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Finland:K-15 | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 | Philippines:R-13 | Singapore:NC-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:R | Spain:18 | Argentina:16 | Italy:T | Portugal:M/16 | Australia:MA | Germany:16 | Malaysia:18SG | Malaysia:U (cut version) | South Korea:15 | Peru:14 | UK:15 | New Zealand:R16 | France:-12 | Japan:PG-12

Company:

Kadokawa-Daiei Eiga K.K.

Trivia:

In the Philippines, the movie poster carries the tagline "For the creators of The Ring and Juon: The Grudge 2." The two mentioned movies have no connection with this movie (except both movies also came from Japan where this movie was originated).

Movie Connections:

Referenced in A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King (2011) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Ikutsuka no Sora

The Call from Death

While in a bar with her friends, the teenager Yoko Okazaki (Anna Nagata) receives a call in her cellular with a voice mail from the future telling the date and time when she would die. On the next day, Yumi overhears a group of students talking about the urban legend that people connected in the address book of cellular are mysteriously receiving phone calls with date and time of their death in the near future. In the precise informed hour, Yoko is attacked by a supernatural force in a train station while talking to her friend Yumi Nakamura (Kou Shibasaki) by phone and dies with severed arm and leg. Yumi seeks out Kioto's boyfriend Kenji Kawai (Atsushi Ida), who also received a call, and witnesses his death in an elevator shaft. When her roommate Natsumi Konishi (Kazue Fukiishi) receives a call, Yoko befriends Hiroshi Yamashita (Shin'ichi Tsutsumi), who tells her that his sister Ritsuko (Azusa) that worked in the Child Guidance Center with abused children was the first victim of the phone call. While in the hospital, Yumi hears an asthma pump and recalls that she heard the same noise when Kenji died. They decide to investigate victims of asthma in the hospital and find the name of Marie Mizunuma and her daughters Mimiko and Nanako. They search the family together trying to save Natsumi from her fate.

"Chakushin Ari" is scary like most of the Asian horror movies, and has a promising beginning supported by a great acting and a good plot. However, the last quarter of the movie is confused, not clear, needing interpretation; therefore, the screenplay writer Minako Daira or the cult director Takashi Miike or both failed since they were not able to transmit a clear conclusion of the story to the audience. I glanced in IMDb the most different interpretations for the end of the story to ratify my opinion. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Ligação Perdida" ("Missed Call")