The Call (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The call |
| Original title | Chakushin ari 着 信 ア リ |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Takashi Miike |
| script | Miwako Daira |
| production |
Yoichi Arishige , Fumio Inoue , Naoki Sato |
| music | Kōji Endō |
| camera | Hideo Yamamoto |
| cut | Yasushi Shimamura |
| occupation | |
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The Call (original title: 着 信 ア リ , Chakushin ari - German festival title: One Missed Call ) is a Japanese horror film by director Takashi Miike from 2003 and is based on a story by Yasushi Akimoto . The film is about a group of young students who receive phone calls with death messages from the near future and are brutally killed hours later.
In 2005 and 2006 there were two sequels: The Call 2 directed by Renpei Tsukamoto and The Call 3 - Final directed by Manabu Asou . In 2008, a remake was released under the title Deadly Call .
action
After her friend Rina's funeral, Yoko meets with five student friends in a restaurant. When Yoko and Yumi go to the bathroom, Yoko's cell phone suddenly rings with a different melody than usual. She missed the call, but then sees that she was called from her own number and the call was made two days in the future. When your mailbox is listening, she hears her own voice and shout themselves. She believes it is a joke and ignores it. Two days later, at the exact same time the call was made, Yoko is on the phone with Yumi using the exact same words that she heard on her mailbox. Shortly afterwards she is pushed off a bridge in front of a train by an invisible force.
Yumi, who has been abused by her tyrannical mother since childhood and has suffered from various phobias since then , learns at the subsequent funeral that Yoko became the second victim of a sinister series of murders after Rina, which spread through the number memory of the last victim. When three more students were murdered according to the same pattern within a few days, Yumi and Hiroshi, the brother of the first victim Ritsuko, decided to find out the secret of the fatal phone calls. Their investigations lead to a children's psychological clinic where Ritsuko once worked as a nurse and investigated a case of Munchausen Deputy Syndrome. She suspected a certain Marie Mizunuma of deliberately harming her children through medical treatment.
In the further course of the plot, Yumi also receives such a message with the said death warning, which ultimately leads her to a disused section of the children's hospital. Now at the latest, reality and perception merge. With the help of Hiroshi, Yumi manages to get through the time of her death. Then they find the disfigured and half-decayed body of the caring Marie Mizunuma, who, however, did not abuse her children, but also suffered from her ten-year-old daughter Mimiko, who constantly abused her younger sister. At the end of the film, Hiroshi discovers that Mimiko was actually making those calls from her dead mother's cell phone and is responsible for the death of the young students. Her last victim will probably be Yumi, who in turn - driven by the spirit Mimikos - attacks Hiroshi with a knife.
Reviews
"Comparatively weak horror film by Takashi Miike, who surfs the wave of success of Japanese horror films with little originality, but nevertheless creates abysmal tension through the careful staging and atmospheric composition."
“The first thoroughbred horror film by Japanese cult and shock director Takashi Miike ( Ichi the Killer ) is a minimally modified infusion of Hideo Nakata's trend-setting ring shocker. Although skilfully staged, the build-up of tension comes across as very sedate and, for the eccentric director Miike, noticeably straightforward. Only a disturbing media scolding in the form of the live TV broadcast of the death of one of the girls and the finale with a few drastic make-up effects make you forget the well-known knitting pattern of Asian curse films. A little more insanity would have done the film good. "
Web links
- The Call in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Call in the online film database
- The Call at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The Call. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. tvspielfilm.de