Pulse
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“Do you want to meet a ghost?”
Overview
Award-winning filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure) delivered one of the finest entries in the J-Horror genre with this moody techno-chiller. Setting his story in the burgeoning internet age in Japan, Pulse foretells how technology will only serve to isolate us as it grows more important to our lives. A group of young people in Tokyo begin to experience strange phenomena involving missing co-workers and friends, technological breakdown, and a mysterious website which asks, "Would you like to meet a ghost?" After the unexpected suicides of several friends, three strangers set out to explore a city which is growing more empty by the day, and to solve the mystery of what lies within a forbidden room in an abandoned construction site, mysteriously sealed shut with red packing tape.
Why See This Film
Featuring haunting cinematography by Junichiro Hayashi (Ringu), a dark and unsettling tone which lingers long after the movie is over, and an ahead-of-its-time story which anticipates 21st century disconnection and social media malaise, Pulse is one of the crowning achievements in modern Japanese horror, and a dark mirror for our contemporary digital world.
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