One Missed Call

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🎙️ EPISODE 548: 09.06.22 Not sure how I missed this, but I totally neglected the fact that there is an entire One Missed Call franchise (3 films and a 10 episode TV show!). This has to be the stupidest premise to have ever garnered a 'franchise' right? Not to mention the 2008 Ed Burns phones in it American remake. The plots of both films are very similar. The Japanese original certainly takes its time building the story. It's also legitimately more creepy and scary, and credit director Takashi Miike for that. I don't have a lot more to say (WRITE) about it, so lemme just share some gifs of said creepiness and call it day. Cool? ...

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One Missed Call (Japanese: 着信アリ, Hepburn: Chakushin ari) is a 2003 Japanese horror film directed by Takashi Miike. The film is based on the novel Chakushin Ari by Yasushi Akimoto. The plot revolves around Yumi Nakamura, a young psychology student whose friend Yoko gets a strange voice message on her cell phone. The message is dated two days in the future and Yoko can hear herself screaming in it. After Yoko mysteriously dies, her death sets off a chain of events which leads Yumi to discover that this phenomenon has been occurring throughout Japan long before Yoko received an alarming call from her future self. When Yumi receives a call with the date and time of her death, she struggles to save herself and learn the truth behind the calls. The film received a critically panned English-language adaptation in 2008. It was released on November 3, 2003.