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User Rating:
6.3/10   5,785 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Yasushi Akimoto (novel)
Minako Daira (screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
17 January 2004 (Japan) more
Genre:
Tagline:
Death cannot be put on hold... more
Plot:
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths. full summary | full synopsis
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(5 articles)
Part V: Exclusive Takashi Miike interview video!
 (From Fangoria. 7 February 2009, 10:01 PM, PST)

Part IV: Exclusive Takashi Miike interview video!
 (From Fangoria. 7 February 2009, 5:36 PM, PST)

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a very great "grudge" movie for Asian horror fans more (66 total)

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Directed by
Takashi Miike 
 
Writing credits
Yasushi Akimoto (novel)

Minako Daira (screenplay)

Produced by
Yoichi Arishige .... producer
Fumio Inoue .... producer
Kazuo Kuroi .... executive producer
Hiroshi Okawa .... co-executive producer
Naoki Sato .... producer
 
Original Music by
Kôji Endô 
 
Cinematography by
Hideo Yamamoto 
 
Film Editing by
Yasushi Shimamura 
 
Production Design by
Hisao Inagaki 
 
Makeup Department
Etsuko Egawa .... special makeup effects artist
 
Sound Department
Deb Munini .... adr engineer
Atsushi Nakamura .... sound
Kevin Patzelt .... sound editor
Mark A. Rozett .... sound re-recording mixer
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
One Missed Call (Philippines: English title) (USA)
You've Got a Call (Japan: English title)
Llamada perdida (Argentina) (video title) (Spain) [es]
Üks vastamata kõne (Estonia) [et]
1 puhelu tullut (Finland) [fi]
1 ubesvart anrop (Norway) [no]
Cevapsiz arama (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
La llamada (Peru) [es]
La mort en ligne (France) [fr]
Mistet opkald (Denmark) [da]
Nieodebrane polaczenie (Poland) [pl]
One Missed Call (Germany) (festival title) [de]
The Call (Germany) [de]
The call: Non rispondere (Italy) [it]
Una llamada perdida (Mexico) (original subtitled version) [es]
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MPAA:
Rated R for violence, disturbing images and brief nudity.
Runtime:
Japan:112 min | USA:111 min | Argentina:112 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
During the opening credit sequence, one of the cell phone ring-tones is the theme song from an earlier 'Takashi Miike (I)' film, Gokudô kyôfu dai-gekijô: Gozu (2003). more
Goofs:
Crew or equipment visible: When the hand is reaching for Yumi in the hospital, the finger twists backwards, however, you can see someone’s hand holding up the arm when the arm and finger start to contort backwards. more
Movie Connections:
Version of "Chakushin ari" (2005) more
Soundtrack:
Ikutsuka no Sora more

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59 out of 76 people found the following comment useful.
a very great "grudge" movie for Asian horror fans, 5 December 2004
10/10
Author: gizoune7 from Canada

i read a lot of bad reviews about this fantastic movie, so i watched it without even expecting something good.Of course i was positively surprised,the actors are very good : very few American actress knows how to express pure terror on they're faces as well as a Japanese actress.Miike success in creating an intense and creepy mood that follows you all the way till the end credits.

o.k. so the story is not very original,if you have seen Ju-on, Ringu or Dark water there is nothing new here. it's another Japanese movie with a "grudge" (grudge: curse that happens when someone "most of the times a girl" dies in a tragic or horrible death,then the girl return from the dead to kill,usually grudges have long dark hair covering they're faces) but the ghost or grudge in "one missed call" is a lot more scary than Sadako in ringu or even the one in ju-on and there is a lot of murders going on from the beginning to the end. It's definitely not slow paced like dark water and a lot more entertaining.

But if your like me, when you watch a zombie movie you expect zombies,if you watch a killer movie you expect killings so if you watch a Japanese horror movie expect a grudge cause it's a part of the Japanese mythology so don't go crying out loud that this movie sucks because it's a pale imitation of ringu and ju-on, IT IS NOT!!!!

so, i give this movie 10/10 for three reason: 1: a lot of good scares 2: a very effective and disgusting grudge 3: entertaining from opening credits to the end

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