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Predating many of the Japanese horror (J-horror) films that have been re-made for American audiences (including The Grudge, Dark Water), PULSE was originally purchased by Miramax in 2001 to make way for a re-make.  Eschewing gore and easy shocks for a harrowing tone unique to his cinema, writer/director Kiyoshi Kurosawa has made a dense and complex film whose metaphysical and psychological resonance will last long after the chills have subsided.  

A supernatural ghost story directed by Japanese horror master Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Bright Future, Loft), PULSE predates many of the Japanese horror films that have been re-made for American audiences (The Ring, The Grudge).

When young Tokyo man, Taguchi, stops returning his colleagues’ phone calls, his co-worker Michi (Kumiko Aso) visits his apartment to check on him. Within minutes Taguchi has hanged himself and Michi has fled, taking with her a mysterious disc but not realising the deadly virus may contain...

  Taguchi’s ghostly reappearance in grainy computer and video images shocks his friends – is he trying to contact them from beyond the grave or is something more sinister afoot? Soon there are more sudden deaths and disappearances within the group, terrifying rooms sealed in red tape, and the appearance of more ghosts as the city of Tokyo – and the world – is slowly drained of life.

 

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