One Missed Call (2003)
Directed by Takashi Miike
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their future death, listed on the message log. The plot thickens as the surviving characters pursue the answers to this mystery which could save their lives.
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What critics compared One Missed Call to
That person is Takashi Miike, who’s hit it big in cult circles with a variety pack of titles - among them are “Audition,” “Ichi the Killer,” and “The Happiness of the Katakuris” - that share the common link of unflinching, unbearable violence; his works are infamous for crossing boundaries in intentionally uncomfortable ways.
Miikeâs back catalog is a hit-or-miss affair, with moments of sheer blood-spattered brilliance (Audition, Visitor Q, Ichi the Killer) running neck and garroted neck alongside curious misfires (Zebraman, Full Metal Yakuza) .
It may have been a mistake to hire a Frenchman to remake a movie by the Japanese mad genius Takashi Miike ( Audition , Ichi the Killer ), but while director Eric Valette fails to do anything with the derivative plot (borrowed shamelessly from "Ringu," "Ju-On" and other Japanese classics) or the interesting cast, he manages an unusual, appealingly quiet tone.
T akashi Miike (“One Missed Call”) remembers that.
Aside from the pitiful victims, the only woman character that's even slightly developed is Shinrokuro's wife Tsuya, played by Kazue Fukiishi, who worked for Miike in the supernatural thriller One Missed Call.