People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their future death. In order to save themselves, the characters must find a way out of death.
19 February 1982, Osaka, Japan
28 September 1982, Osaka, Japan
28 July 1984, Fukuoka, Japan
29 March 1982, Tokyo, Japan
9 February 1983, Kanagawa, Japan
27 September 1964, Tokyo, Japan
28 April 1980, Hyogo, Japan
5 August 1981, Tokyo, Japan
16 November 1986, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan
9 August 1941, Tokyo, Japan
9 January 1978, Chiba, Japan
15 November 1972, Japan
28 June 1961, Tokyo, Japan
19 January 1963, Fukuoka, Japan
June 11, 2010
At the movie's core is a mystery that simply isn't even remotely interesting...April 21, 2005
One Missed Call staggers under the weight of its director's taste for baroque excess.April 21, 2005
There is something uniquely delicious in what the film says about the desperation of some cell users.May 05, 2005
A prolonged, maddening, predictable -- yet curiously pleasurable -- descent into incomprehensibility.April 20, 2005
So unoriginal that the movie could almost be a parody of J-horror tropes, yet Miike, for a while at least, stages it with a dread-soaked visual flair that allows you to enjoy being manipulated.March 29, 2006
It'd feel a whole lot creepier if it weren't exactly like that haunted videotape flick.September 13, 2005
There is very little in One Missed Call that we have not seen before. And yet it works.March 18, 2008
Miike's return to the horror genre is a slicker and less original affair than Audition, but also sharply dissects the J-horror phenomenon even as it scares the hell out of you.September 16, 2009
More annoying than answering a wrong number phone call.June 11, 2005
Miike reins in his anything goes impulses...but still smuggles in his sense of humor and flair for the grotesque, often at the same time.April 22, 2005
One Missed Call is a mess.April 19, 2005
No more than Miike's shot at generating a polished, rote, expertly composed J-horror flick.