One Missed Call

Following where he once led, maverick Japanese director Takashi Miike makes his belated contribution to the J-horror subgenre of urban legends involving schoolgirls and cursed technology with a derivative but still effective horror picture. Intro psychology student Yumi (Kuo Shibasaki) is in the ladies' room of a restaurant with her friend, Yoko (Anna Nagata), when a cell phone rings with a creepy, childlike tune. It's Yoko's phone, but she doesn't recognize the ring tone and doesn't answer; when she retrieves her messages moments later, she notices that the date and time of the missed call indicate that it was made at 11:04 pm — on the day after tomorrow. Stranger s...