Two groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet.Two groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet.Two groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 3 nominations
Koji Yakusho
- Ship Captain
- (as Kôji Yakusho)
- Director
- Writer
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Storyline
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- TriviaKiyoshi Kurosawa: (at around 16 min. into the film) While Kawashima is looking at the various people moping around in a catatonic state via web cam, there is one man who appears to be sleeping on his desk. He then wakes up, raises his head, and looks straight into the camera, facing us. That man is Kurosawa Kiyoshi, writer and director of this film.
- GoofsMichi's scream does not match up with her body movement when she watches the woman commit suicide by jumping off the tower.
- Quotes
Ghost: Death was... eternal loneliness.
- ConnectionsEdited into Pulse (2006)
- SoundtracksHane Lay Down My Arms
Performed by Cocco
Featured review
Ghosts In Everyone's Machine...
PULSE makes perfect sense in light of Japan's -at the time of the film's release- fall from economic dominance, and it's high suicide rate (30k+ / year). This movie, unlike the pallid American remake, has a blighted atmosphere of inescapable doom. From the opening scene we realize that no one is safe, and nothing will escape the encroaching darkness.
The internet, its users, and the world at large are under attack by spirits that have overrun the afterlife, and spilled back into the land of the isolated living. This brings us a host of grim images in an ever more suffocating death-scape. A tremendous ghost story, PULSE is also a terrifying allegory of cold, empty modernity...
The internet, its users, and the world at large are under attack by spirits that have overrun the afterlife, and spilled back into the land of the isolated living. This brings us a host of grim images in an ever more suffocating death-scape. A tremendous ghost story, PULSE is also a terrifying allegory of cold, empty modernity...
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $51,420
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $7,250
- Nov 13, 2005
- Gross worldwide
- $318,451
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