Pulse (2001 film)

Pulse, known in Japan as Kairo ? , is a 2001 Japanese horror film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. The film is based on his novel of the same name. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. The movie was wellreceived critically and has a cult following. An American remake, also titled Pulse, debuted in 2006 and spawned two sequels.

The first story involves a young woman named Kudo Michi Kumiko Aso who works at a plant sales company. She has recently moved to the city and her main friends are her three colleagues, Sasano Junko, Toshio Yabe and Taguchi. At the start of the film, it appears Taguchi has been missing for some days working on a computer disk. Michi goes to visit his apartment and finds him distracted and aloof in the middle of their conversation, he casually makes a noose, leaves and hangs himself. Michi and her colleagues inspect the computer disk he left behind and discover it contains an image of Taguchi staring at his own computer monitor, which is displaying an image of Taguchi staring at his computer monitor, creating an endless series of images. In the other monitor on his desk, Michi and her friends discover a ghostly face staring out into Taguchis room.Yabe later receives a mysterious phone call of a distorted voice saying Help me, over and over. Upon checking his phone, Yabe sees the same image found on Taguchis disk. He goes to Taguchis apartment and sees a ghostly black stain on the wall where Taguchi was found dead, before finding a crumpled piece of printer paper with the words The forbidden room on it. Upon leaving, he notices a door sealed up with red tape and enters, encountering a ghost. Yabe shows up at work late, depressed and uncommunicative, with Junko expressing her exasperation with him to Michi. On her way home, Michi watches on as a woman hurriedly seals a door with red tape. Yabes strange behavior continues into the next day, ultimately taking to hiding in a storage room. When Michi goes to check on him, he is evasive to her concerns however expresses that he had seen something horrible in the forbidden room. Michi asks if it is a room sealed by red tape to which Yabe snaps at her, returning to his unresponsive state and retreats to a separate room shortly after. Michi, returning home from work, pauses by the sealed door she had seen prior before continui

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