Pulse

2001 [JAPANESE]

Action / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller

49
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 60% · 54 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 60% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 30560 30.6K

co-worker co-worker relationship depression suicide isolation afterlife

Plot summary

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.

Director

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Photo
Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Top cast

Shô Aikawa Photo
Shô Aikawa as Employee
Haruhiko Katô Photo
Haruhiko Katô as Ryosuke Kawashima
Shun Sugata Photo
Shun Sugata as Boss
Masayuki Shionoya Photo
Masayuki Shionoya as Ghost
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.07 GB
1280*714
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 58 min
Seeds 42
1.98 GB
1920*1072
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 58 min
Seeds 97

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by GreenmanReviews 6 / 10

Love the aestetics & early internet era

I really like the slow and ominous atmosphere of Kairo, especially its depiction of Japan's late 90s and early 2000s aesthetics, including early internet culture and architectural design. The film features some excellent decor shots that enhance its eerie and nostalgic feel.Fun fact: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, known for his work in horror, actually started his career directing pink films, which are a genre of Japanese softcore adult movies. This diverse background contributed to his unique approach to creating tension and atmosphere in his later works.I give this film a 6/10 mostly because i love the aesthetics from the early 2000s.-Concept (Idea Premise, Worldbuilding, Theme) 7.0 -Plot (A,B,C, Writing) 6.0 -Acting 5.8 -Dialogue(Character development, Plot advancement, Natural-sounding, Consistency, Looping(ADR)) 5.6 -Fun 5.2 -Decor (Aesthetic, Graphics VFX, Scenery/Location, Scenes, Shots, Stage Set, Mise en Scène, Directing) 8.2 -Overall 6.3.
Reviewed by saladin-10 8 / 10

Made me squirm...

I'm an old horror buff. I've seen some of the more notorious stuff around (Salo, Cannibal Holocaust, Caligula,...), but they all more or less about visceral horror.Which doesn't work if you helped slaughter a few pigs.What does work? Psychological horror. Impending doom you cannot prevent. Things you can't see or understand, but that are there right in front of your face. Music that shouldn't be scary, but which lingers anyway.It's a typical, slow moving J-Horror with an atypical idea behind it. That oblivion is actually preferable than immortality. Gore doesn't scare me - but some ideas do. Like i said - it made me squirm... One of the best horror movies ever made - for the patient ones.
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