Bibliograph

Pulse, a Kadokawa Pictures, NTV Network, Hakuhood, Inc. Imagica Corp. film ; a Kurosawa Kiyoshi film ; producers, Shun Shimizu, Seiji Okuda, Takeshi Inoue, Atsuyuki Shimoda ; written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Type

Label

Pulse, a Kadokawa Pictures, NTV Network, Hakuhood, Inc. Imagica Corp. film ; a Kurosawa Kiyoshi film ; producers, Shun Shimizu, Seiji Okuda, Takeshi Inoue, Atsuyuki Shimoda ; written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Language

jpn

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R; for some violent images

Main title

Pulse

Medium

DVD

Oclc number

1112362752

resource.otherEventInformation

Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 2001

Responsibility statement

a Kadokawa Pictures, NTV Network, Hakuhood, Inc. Imagica Corp. film ; a Kurosawa Kiyoshi film ; producers, Shun Shimizu, Seiji Okuda, Takeshi Inoue, Atsuyuki Shimoda ; written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Review

Review of this 2001 film: "A group of college students in Japan install an Internet program that invokes murderous ghosts. Plot seeming less hackneyed when it premiered in Japan four years before hitting U.S. screens; it remains significantly more original than American Internet-related horror films. Kurosawa effectively focuses on the fear and melancholy resulting from the urban isolation that the Internet promotes. A bit overlong and redundant, but philosophical, atmospheric, genuinely scary horror films are few and far between." - Leonard Maltin's Movie guide. Rating 3

Runtime

119

Summary

A group of young friends is rocked by the sudden suicide of one of their own and his subsequent ghostly reappearance in grainy computer and video images. More deaths follow as the world is slowly being drained of life

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action

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Kairo, dvd

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