Wang and Madoka indicate the presence of coal dust in their lungs and no candies in their mouths. Meanwhile, Kyoko receives a phone call and the autopsies of Mr. Their investigation shows that Mimiko's grandfather Wei Zhang is in Taiwan and Takako asks her former husband Yuting to search him. She rushes to Madoka's apartment and finds her dead in the bathtub, with Naoto and Takako arriving immediately after. Meanwhile Kyoko is talking to Madoka and she sees a ghost in her phone. Wang, but also Madoka have received similar calls. Later, Naoto is visited by the snoopy journalist Takako Nozoe, who is researching the death call, and she plays the deadly ring tone for him. Wang answers his daughter's mobile phone, he receives a message telling him that he would die in an accident in the kitchen. It's not my favorite J-horror movie, but it's definitely worth a watch.Storyline: One Missed Call 2 (2005) In Japan, the daycare teacher Kyoko Okudera is convinced by her colleague and friend Madoka to visit her boyfriend Naoto Sakurai in the restaurant where he works instead of studying as planned. That being said, the One Missed Call franchise is based on books, so they couldn't have been knockoffs of Final Destination. But it does at least give it a more Final Destination style because, from the start of the movie, the characters realize when they're going to die and hint about what will lead up to their death. In regard to it using cell phones to spread a curse, it's like an updated version of The Ring/Ringu. The story also features pretty strange, sadistic-coded characters and abusive relationship dynamics that appear to just be more aligned with Miike's style to me. If you like the gritty and gory tone of Miike's films, then you might be disappointed because One Missed Call is definitely more muted and aimed for mainstream audiences I would say there are scenes that definitely made me wince (like a particular death via body contortion/body horror), but it's nothing compared to his other films and I can see why audiences would be disappointed. Stylistically, it aligns with the atmospheric horror championed by the most popular J-horror movies (*cough* The Ring *cough*), while also containing signature elements of its director, Takashi Miike (best known for Ichi the Killer and Audition). One Missed Call is a very traditional J-horror in regard to the time of its release, in 2003.
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