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The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The story presented here is rather unique and I love that. There are ghosts that have stepped into the land of the living by way of the internet and they have a message. I won't say more than that about the plot but I will say that this is one of the creepiest movies I have seen in a long time. I prefer the creepy horror because it tends to stay with me longer. The play on shadows in this is really awesome. It made me feel like a little kid, laying in my bed at night, falling deeply into a state of terror as my imagination and the darkness played with my sense of security. I loved it.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's horror films are known for the uneasy atmosphere that surrounds them, and for the tension that is present in each scene. The director does not aim to merely scare the audience, relying on easy techniques such as the use of jump scares. Instead, he combines soundtrack, cinematography and misè-en-scene elements in a way that makes us feel like something will appear to scare us at any moment, and this expectation is never fulfilled. It feels like there is something observing us hidden in any shadow that appears on the screen. All of this makes watching a horror movie made by Kurosawa a nerve wracking experience. Kairo portrays characters trying to survive in a world that has been invaded by ghosts that travel through internet. Every time someone goes to the "forbidden room", a place sealed by red tape and inhabited by a ghost, this person goes crazy and commits suicide. However, we soon learn that the ghosts are not the horrifying part, but the message they carry. Ghosts are invading the real world neither because they aim to haunt nor to kill: they just do not have anywhere else to go. And when they meet a living person, what drives this person crazy is the message from afterlife that the ghost tells them: that after you die, nothing will change; you will stay the same as you were when alive. In other words, you will be alone for the eternity. Through the film we watch those people who have met the ghosts become lifeless and disappear into shadows while they ask for help. Some of them do not even actively commit suicide - they just slowly disappear, as if they were ghosts. Random computer screens show people who are alive but behave as ghosts. The main theme of this film is solitude, and one of the main characters states at some point that "in fact, ghosts and people are the same".

PULSEI love Japanese horror movies. I believe that the Japanese are the best at making horror. The atmosphere that these guys give the movies is what is the scary part.This movie is about a web site that apparently allows you to communicate with the dead. It all is not as it seems. People start killing themselves and it is down to 2 people to find out why their friends are dying.The film is very confusing. I watched this with a friend of mine and we both were wondering what was happening through the film. It is a shame because I was enjoying it, but even when the movie finished I was still not sure what the hell was going on with it. I had to Google the film to read the synopsis to confirm what it was about. The atmosphere was there which was good. There were times when it was a bit spooky and you wondered what was going to happen.The acting was good, but then I don't know any Japanese film where the acting is bad. I suppose it does make it better for them that I don't understand much Japanese. I did learn quite a bit a few years ago, but not enough to understand a film. If I could speak Japanese I wonder if I would still think they can all act very well. The movie stars Haruhiko Kato, Kumiko Aso and Koyuki.This film is good and I will watch it again to try and understand it a little more, but overall I was disappointed in it a little bit. I much preferred Ring, Battle Royale, Audition and Versus… these are my favourite Japanese films that I will watch soon hopefully and review for you.I will give this film 5 out of 10. Maybe I will give it more after the second watch… time will tell."Death was... eternal loneliness"For more reviews, please like my Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ordinary-Person-Movie- Reviews/456572047728204?ref=hl

I think I saw this film mentioned in of those many "Scariest Movies You've Never Seen" lists that always seem to circulate around Halloween time. The plot sounded interesting, so I decided to check it out. If one had to describe a plot, it starts with a teenager who kills himself in a creepy fashion, and how his death affects his coworkers and friends. Each of this small group of young adults starts to experience strange occurrences.All of this is tied together with the emergence of a new phenomenon called the internet (remember, this was released in 2001). In a separate side story that eventually intersects with the characters mentioned in the first paragraph, a young man is excited to be installing his internet software and connecting his dial up modem for the first time, but when he finally connects, his computer seems to be a portal into rooms populated by creepy half human/ghosts. He seeks to advice of a computer science student, and together they try to figure out what is going on while being drawn further into the mystery.The film is obviously pushing in a not so subtle way a message about how technology and the internet are making us more isolated and lonely, to the point where the line between people and ghosts is blurred. Even though the message is not subtle, it is effective, and story delivers some genuinely creepy and disturbing scenes in exploring that message. As many other reviewers who are much more familiar with Japanese horror than I am have mentioned, this genre of horror is less interested in quick and instant payoffs than in gradually building a sense of dread.I deducted a couple of stars because I felt the running time could have been shaved a bit without much loss of effectiveness, and because I shared the concerns some other reviewers have mentioned about how the ending felt disconnected from the earlier parts of the film. But I'd still recommend it. Even though the internet technology displayed in this film feels extremely outdated already, the film's message is still relevant, and it left me with a lingering sense of dread and creepiness that endured even after the movie had ended.