Otoshimono (2006)

Director:

Takeshi Furusawa

Writers:

Takeshi Furusawa
Erika Tanaka
(more)

Release Date:

27 July 2006 (South Korea)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

On her way to school, high school girl Nana sees a train accident. Then Nana and her friend Kanae start to come across various bizarre phenomena...

Cast

Erika Sawajiri	...	Nana
Chinatsu Wakatsuki	...	Kanae
Shun Oguri	...	Shunichi
Aya Sugimoto	...	Kumi
Itsuji Itao
Aja
Sae Shimizu
Eiki Kitamura
Kôki Katô
Suzuno Nomura
Kazuya Sato
Haru Makino
Shinji Rokkaku
Motofumi Takaya
Rena Sakaki
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Miyoko Asada
Christine M. Auten	...	Yaeko / Lady Zombie / Zombie 4 (voice: English version)
Chris Ayres	...	Zombie 1 (voice: English version)
Eden J. Barrera	...	Lost & Found Man (voice: English version)
Clint Bickham	...	Yohei (voice: English version)
Shelley Calene-Black	...	Kanae's Mother (voice: English version)
Charles Campbell	...	Saeki / TV Announcer (voice: English version)
Luci Christian	...	Co-Worker / Zombie 2 / Student 1 (voice: English version)
Colleen Clinkenbeard	...	Nana (voice: English version)
Rebekah Dahl	...	Masae / Voice Mail (voice: English version)
Jason Douglas	...	Kawamura (voice: English version)
Shannon Emerick	...	Takashi (voice: English version)
Cynthia Ann Feaster	...	Misaki (voice: English version)
Alice Fulks	...	Kumi (voice: English version)
Hilary Haag	...	Student 3 (voice: English version)
Jay Hickman	...	Kurahashi / Zombie 7 (voice: English version)
Yuriko Hiro'oka
K.C. Jones	...	Weird Guy / Train Announcer / Station Attendent (voice: English version)
Brittney Karbowski	...	Noriko / Zombie 3 / Student 2 (voice: English version)
Mark Laskowski	...	Shigeru (voice: English version)
Kelly Manison	...	Yaeko (voice: English version)
George Manley	...	Yoshida (voice: English version)
Kalob Martinez	...	Shunichi (voice: English version)
Sachiko Matsuura
Vic Mignogna	...	Zombie 5 (voice: English version)
Shirô Namiki
Lidia Porto	...	Yasuko (voice: English version)
Shigeru Saiki
Blake Shepard	...	Zombie 6 (voice: English version)
Shirô Shimomoto
Serena Varghese	...	Kanae (voice: English version)
Anita Vasquez	...	Takano (voice: English version)

Directed by
Takeshi Furusawa

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Takeshi Furusawa
Scott Gensch		additional material
Erika Tanaka

Produced by
Yoshitaka Ishizuka	....	producer

Other crew
Mikiko Koyama	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• Amuse Soft Entertainment
• Nippon Shuppan Hanbai (Nippan) K.K.
• Otoshimono Film Partners
• Pyramid Film
• Shochiku Company
• Twins Japan

Distributors

• Shochiku Company (2006) (Japan) (all media)
• ADV Films (2007) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• United International Pictures (UIP) (2007) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• FUNimation Entertainment (2009) (USA) (DVD)
• Notro Films (2007) (Spain) (all media)
• Splendid Film (2008) (Germany) (DVD)

Special Effects

• Camel Assist (digital compositing)
• Finewave (visual effects)
• Magic Pictures (visual effects)
• McRay (digital compositing)
• Motion Design U2 (digital compositing)
• P Three (digital compositing)
• Pyramid Film (visual effects)
• Soup Digital (visual effects)

Other Companies

• Continental Far East  Dolby consultant
• Imagica  prints
• Nihon Shomei Co.  lighting equipment supplied by
• Shu Tokki  grip equipment supplied by

Also Known As:

"Ghost Train" - USA (literal English title)
"Ghost Tunnel" - Singapore (English title)
"Lost and Found" - Japan (English title) (literal title)

Runtime:

USA:92 min | Hong Kong:93 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Hong Kong:IIB | Singapore:PG | Malaysia:U | Germany:16 | South Korea:15

Filming Locations:

Japan

Company:

Amuse Soft Entertainment

Trivia:

When Nana goes with the train driver to find Noriko towards the end of the film, the number of the train is "507". In Japanese, "5" and "7" are pronounced "Go" and "Nana" respectively.

Entertaining, but not scary

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.