Pulse

If one masterpiece were to emerge from the recent glut of generally good-quality Japanese horror movies, this chilling apocalyptic ghost story from Kyroshi Kurosawa is it. After her friend and colleague Taguchi (Kenji Mizuhashi) doesn't show up to work for an entire week, Michi (Kumiko Aso) begins to worry. When she arrives at his apartment, however, she finds him alive and well but behaving a little oddly. As Michi searches for a computer disk she needs for work, Taguchi quietly hangs himself in the next room. A few days later, when Taguchi's coworker, Yabe, receives a pleading phone call from Taguchi's apartment, he races over only to find it empty, save for a stra...