The Call 2
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Call 2 |
| Original title | Chakushin ari 2 着 信 ア リ 2 |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Renpei Tsukamoto |
| script | Miwako Daira |
| production |
Kazuo Kuroi , Yoichi Arishige , Naoki Satō |
| music | Kōji Endō |
| camera | Tokusho Kikumura |
| cut | Soichi Ueno |
| occupation | |
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The Call 2 ( Japanese 着 信 ア リ 2 , Chakushin ari 2 , English title: One Missed Call 2 ) is a Japanese horror film directed by Renpei Tsukamoto from 2005. Together with The Call from 2003 and The Call 3 - Final from 2006 he forms the The Call trilogy , which is based on the novel by Yasushi Akimoto .
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One Missed Call 2 takes place a year after the original and begins with friends Kyoko and Madoka, who work as supervisors in a kindergarten in Tokyo . At the end of their working day, they visit the restaurant where Kyoko's friend works.
Mei-Fueng, the daughter of the chef at this restaurant, left her cell phone in the kitchen. When she receives a call, the "ringtone of death" known from the first part sounds. Mei-Fueng's father, who suspects her hated boyfriend to be the caller, angrily answers his daughter's cell phone, but surprisingly hears her voice. She advises him not to leave the hot pan on the stove (the stove is off at this point) and ends the call with a scream. When Mei-Fueng returns from shopping, she is asked about the call, but denies that she made it.
When the restaurant is already closed, Mei-Feung gives Kyoko and Madoka their new cell phone number. Seconds after they have exchanged numbers, Madoka receives a call with the "ringtone of death". She notices that this cannot be her ringtone and after a short silence from the friends, the events from a year ago come up. You recognized the ringtone but are not taking it very seriously at first.
Naoto is now in the kitchen to say goodbye to the cook for today, but only finds him dead, half his face burned in a hot pan. The police are notified, Inspector Motomiya also comes to the scene and examines the body for the red candy that Mimiko always left behind when she was killed. However, it is missing. He then asks for the victim's cell phone, but another policeman tells him that the cook didn't have one. Confused, he leaves the crime scene. He later meets the journalist Takako, who is also investigating Mimikos murder series.
A little later, Naoto is asked to meet by Takako, where she questions him about the incident with the cook. She learns about the call the cook has answered and then plays a tape recording of the fatal ringtone to Naoto. Naoto recognizes him again and only a little later it occurs to him that he had heard the same ringtone on Madoka's. He tries to reach her, but when this does not succeed he sets out with Takako to warn Madoka.
Meanwhile, Kyoko and Madoka are making a video call with their cell phones when Kyoko suddenly sees a figure behind Madoka. She asks if anyone would be with her, which Madoka denies. Kyoko sees the figure approaching her friend from behind, but even though Madoka looks around, she can't see anyone. The figure finally grabs the cell phone over Madoka's shoulder, when Kyoko sees the hand come frantically closer, she throws the cell phone on the floor in a panic and the video connection to Madoka breaks off. Kyoko does not hesitate long, but immediately sets off to save her friend.
Arriving at Madoka's apartment, she enters it through the unlocked door. After a quick search, she finds Madoka's knotted body in the shower. Naoto and Takako arrive shortly after Kyoko. Everyone is shocked by Madoka's disfigured corpse when suddenly Kyoko's cell phone rings with the "ringtone of death".
Takako decides to ask Mimiko's living family for more details about the girl. She finds Mimiko's grandmother and meets with her. Since Kyoko and Naoto don't just want to wait idly for Kyoko's death, they accompany Takako. They learn that Mimiko is the result of a rape and that Mimiko's grandfather killed the perpetrator after catching him red-handed. He was convicted and served his sentence in prison, but during that time he went mad, according to his wife. After his release, he returned to his native Taiwan .
Takako then travels to Taiwan himself to learn more from Mimiko's grandfather. She finds him dead in his apartment, with his cell phone in hand. Takako learns from her ex-husband Yuting, also Taiwanese, that similar mysterious murders have taken place in Taiwan as in Japan, but there was no red candy or anything similar in Taiwan. In response to several inquiries, Yuting admits that he too received such a death call that his death should occur on the same evening as Kyokos. Meanwhile, Kyoko and Naoto also decide to travel to Taiwan in the hope of being able to somehow save Kyoko. After further investigation, Takako finds out that the series of murders began in an old mining town that is now a ghost town.
In Japan, however, research found that coal dust was found in the lungs of Mei-Fueng's father, although this is not common in Japan. You can only find this species in Taiwan. Furthermore, it turned out that deposits of this coal dust were also found in Mimiko's lungs. Motomiya is visibly confused by this new finding. Takako later receives a call with the death ringtone, accepts it irritated and is relieved to find that Motomiya is on the other end of the line. She also complains that he gave her a huge scare with the ringtone. Motomiya tells her that Yumi Nakamura was possessed by Mimiko's ghost and has now passed away.
Takako arranges a meeting with an old woman, the last person alive to live in this city. The old woman is very panicked at first, but eventually tells them about a girl named Li Li. According to the old lady, Li Li was a "scary child" who was teased or pelted with stones by the other children in the city. One day while being teased again, Li Li pointed to a boy and told him he was going to die. In fact, the boy died a little later. As more and more villagers died after Li Li predicted their death, they became frightened of the child and desperately sought a solution to prevent further deaths. They decided to take Li Li to a mine , where she was handcuffed to a chair and her mouth sewn shut to prevent her from predicting further deaths. In addition, she was walled up alive in the mine, where she would eventually die alone and in agony. After learning about this story, Takako, Kyoko, and Naoto decide to drive to the city and mine in question, as they hope there will be further clues for the rescue of Kyoko and Yuting.
Since the area is very large, they decide to split up: Takako goes alone, Kyoko and Naoto start looking for an entrance to the mine together. Takako finally enters the mine, but when her flashlight threatens to break and only flickers, she sees something that makes her pass out. Naoto and Kyoko are separated by chaotic circumstances, Kyoko decides to look for Li Li's grave alone. She actually finds what she is looking for, discovers the walled-up room and also the chair to which the child was tied. On the floor she discovers the needle that was used to sew her mouth shut. Touched by Li Li's tragic story, Kyoko decides to stay with her, telling herself it is her job to help and redeem this child's soul. Only when Naoto shows up and tries to save her, she lets herself be dissuaded from this thought and the two try to flee.
Li Li pursues the two of them and threatens to drag Kyoko back into the mine when suddenly Kyoko's cell phone rings with the ominous ringtone. Naoto remembers how Mei-Fueng's father died instead of his daughter when he answered the call instead of hers, and decides to do the same for Kyoko. He takes the call and hears Kyoko's voice asking him if they would see each other again. The next moment the two swap positions and now it is Naoto who is dragged into the mine by Li Li.
When Takako comes to in the mine, she looks at her watch and remembers that her ex-husband Yuting is about to die. She takes her feet in her hand and hurries to his apartment. He doesn't open the door for her and in a panic she breaks the glass of the front door to open the door. Arriving at the apartment she finds the totally frightened Yuting, who is sitting in his living room armed with a camera. Takako is relieved to find that the time of his death has already passed and the two embrace. They decide to try again together.
Later you see Kyoko recovering in a hospital. Takako is visiting her and tries to encourage her. Takako then leaves the hospital room and finds outside that she has an unanswered call. She listens to her mailbox, where a police officer informs her that Motomiya had passed away the day before. She is extremely confused because Motomiya called her after the alleged time of his death to tell her about Yumi Nakamura. Irritated, she drives to Yuting.
Two Taiwanese officers enter Kyoko's hospital room to question her. They want to know what happened in the mine and whether it is correct that both bodies found were friends of hers. Confused, Kyoko asks whether two bodies have actually been found.
When Takako shows up in Yuting's apartment, she does not find him at first. She doesn't think much about it and instead decides to watch the video that was last recorded with his camera. She sits down at the living room table and watches the video. Yuting had decided to record his death so that the murders would finally come to an end. With horror, Takako realizes that she can be seen on the video, attacking Yuting and finally murdering him in the bathroom. Shocked, she goes into the bathroom and actually finds his body there. She finally remembers the call with the death melody and only now does she realize that she had been called from her own number back then. The time of the call was 17:58, the time her watch stopped when she supposedly passed out in the mine. Now she remembers seeing Mimiko in the mine, who stabbed her with the same knife that Yuting was murdered with. When she realizes she's long gone, she spits out a red candy.
Reviews
"Continuation of a film by Takashi Miike that tells the same story with poor actors and doesn't add anything new to Japanese ghost cinema ."
Individual evidence
- ^ The Call 2. In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
Web links
- One Missed Call 2 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Call 2 in the online film database
- The Call 2 at Rotten Tomatoes (English)