In this second installment of the Whispering Corridors series, a young girl finds a strange diary, capable of arousing hallucinations, kept by two of her senior fellow-students who seem to have an unusually close bond.
Title: Memento Mori (1999)
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| Gyu-ri Kim | ... | Min-ah (as Min-sun Kim) | |
| Park Yejin | ... | Hyo-shin | |
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Yeong-jin Lee | ... | Shi-eun (as Young-jin Lee) |
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Jong-hak Baek | ... | Mr. Goh |
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Min Han | ||
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Seung-Yeon Han | ||
| Kong Hyo-Jin | ... | Ji-won (as Hyo-jin Kong) | |
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Jae-in Kim | ... | Yeon-an (as Min-hie Kim) |
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Hye-Ju Ku | ... | Athletics Captain |
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Hye-mi Lee | ||
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Seong-Eon Lim | ||
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Ji-Yeon Park | ||
Min-Ah finds a strange diary, capable of arousing hallucinations, kept by two of her senior fellow-students, Hyo-Shin and Shi-Eun, who seem to have an unusually close bond. But Hyo-Shin suddenly kills herself, for no obvious reason, and the entire school is shocked and depressed. Min-Ah, however, starts to feel different. It's almost as if she's somehow possessed by the dead girl... Written by Anonymous
Memento Mori, as a sequel to Whispering Corridors, ditches the grainy, atmospheric feel of a gloomy autumn for a slick-looking summery feel. It may be incongruous with the nature of the film, but if it were to be shot exactly the same as Whispering Corridors then I would moan.
A lonely student at an all-girl Korean school finds a diary out in the schoolyard and is sucked into the world of the soon-to-be dead who has left behind. The film jumps around in time as the girl reads stories from the diary. A think a lot more could have been done with this concept since it has so much potential. But the film seems to take place all in a couple of days. Which doesn't give it enough of a change to develop. However, the version I saw was the 99-minute version of the film and since there is a 186-minute cut out there it may well contain a helluva lot more interesting story.
I didn't have a lot of trouble keeping-up with the characters this time though, but the story still seemed kinda incomprehensible. The flashbacks to the past could have been made a little bit more obvious.
Aside from this, it's an enjoyable time-waster.