Chakushin ari 2 (2005)

Director:

Renpei Tsukamoto

Writers:

Yasushi Akimoto (novel)
Minako Daira (screenplay)

Release Date:

29 April 2005 (South Korea)

Genre:

Horror | Mystery

Tagline:

Asobo. (Let's play.)

Plot:

In Japan, the daycare teacher Kyoko Okudera is convinced by her colleague and friend Madoka to visit...

Plot Keywords:

Taiwan | Candy | Ghost | Restaurant | Bathtub

Cast

Mimura	...	Kyoko Okudera
Hisashi Yoshizawa	...	Naoto Sakurai (as Yû Yoshizawa)
Renji Ishibashi
Haruko Wanibuchi
Peter Ho
Asaka Seto	...	Takako Nozoe
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Nana Koizumi
Karen Oshima	...	Mimiko Mizunuma

Also Known As:

One Missed Call 2 (USA) (DVD title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violent content.

Runtime:

Philippines:105 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese | Mandarin

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Philippines:R-13 | USA:R | Malaysia:18SG | South Korea:15 | Hong Kong:IIB | UK:15 | Germany:16 | Singapore:PG | Sweden:15

Company:

Chakushin Ari 2 Seisaku Iinkai

Movie Connections:

Followed by Chakushin ari final (2006)

Fairly cool Japanese ghost horror

I watched this with low expectations and minimal memory of the original, but ended up having a better time than I expected. The first thing I noticed was that the film looks great. The visuals have a great dreamlike and somewhat eerie quality to them which makes for a great atmosphere. There are some neat scare sequences too, granted not much that hasn't been seen before but still pretty swell. There are some good visual effects, some genuinely creepy moments and even one or two disturbing ones, but also one or two when things get laid on a bit too thick. It doesn't help that the film is predictable in that it has a lot that is similar to the many other Japanese ghost and technological convenience and so comes down somewhat to an exercise in seeing that formula worked out through the medium of cellphones. Unfortunately, the ending should have had more explanation and coherency and the film as a whole should have been tighter plotted. Still, its watchable, definitely quite gripping, has reasonable scares, basically if you enjoyed the original or just dig the whole genre then this is worth a look.