Complete [J-Drama] Chakushin Ari

Details

Title: 着信アリ

Title (romaji): Chakushin Ari

Also known as: One Missed Call

Format: Renzoku

Genre: Mystery, Horror

Episodes: 10

Broadcast network: TV Asahi

Broadcast period: 2005-Oct-14 to 2005-Dec-16

Air time: Friday 23:15

Theme song: Heart by D.D.D.

Synopsis

Chakushin Ari (One Missed Call) in which the "message of death" is spread throughout the city via cellphones. Yumi the ex-student of Meiwa's Girls High School and Sendou, a dectective is bend on finding the truth behind these cases where a few selected people had recieved a missed call from themselves fore-telling their death time which when the voice message is retrieved.

Cast

Kikukawa Rei as Nakamura Yumi

Ishiguro Ken as Sendou

Tsuda Kanji

Masu Takeshi

Yamashita Shinji as Akino

Sato Chiaki

Watanabe Ikkei

Hoshino Natsuko as Akino Tomoka

Tayama Ryosei as Saito

Takiguchi Yukihiro as Honda Tetsuya

Movie 1

Format: Tanpatsu

Genre: Mystery, Horror

Episodes: 1

Broadcast network: -

Broadcast period: Jan 17, 2003

Synopsis

During an evening get-together with friends, Okazaki Yoko's (Yoko Okazaki) cell phone suddenly rings in an eerie, unusual tone. Not recognizing the tone, Yoko doesn't pick up soon enough and the call goes into "voice mail" (chakushin). When she sees that the call/message was from her own phone number and dated two days into the future both she and her friend Nakamura Yumi (Yumi Nakamura) listen intently to the message. What they hear is the voice of Yoko in casual chit-chat, followed by a horrendous scream, and then dead silence.

Of course the two girls attempt to laugh this off and even share the story with their friends, who are just as baffled as them. Yoko received the call to her cell phone on Apr 16 at 11:04pm. Her cell phone indicated that the message was from Apr 18 at 11:04pm. At exactly 11:04pm on April 18, Yumi receives a call from Yoko. During that call, Yoko goes through the very same chit-chat as was on her previous voice mail. As Yumi suddenly realizes what might happen next, she hears Yoko shriek into the phone.

Yoko is violently thrown by an invisible force through a chain link fence and onto a speeding commuter train below. Then, as Yoko's severed arm still holds the phone, it begins to dial a phone number...

It turns out that this is only one in a long string of similar incidents wherein some unlucky soul receives a call foreshadowing an all-too-soon grisly demise. At the moment of death, another unlucky soul whose number is stored on the dead phone gets a call, etc. In this manner, the curse propagates itself through a countless chain of unsuspecting cell phone users. After several of her friends die in horrible ways before her very eyes, Yumi can only search for answers. She runs into Yamashita whose own sister was violently killed following the same type of strange call. As the two look further into the few clues they have, what they find proves to be an overwhelming and malevolent force intent on destroying all it encounters.

Cast

Kou Shibasaki as Yumi Nakamura

Shinichi Tsutsumi as Hiroshi Yamashita

Kazue Fukiishi as Natsumi Konishi

Anna Nagata as Yoko Okazaki

Mariko Tsutsui as Marie Mizunuma

Movie 2

Format: Tanpatsu

Genre: Mystery, Horror

Episodes: 1

Broadcast network: -

Broadcast period: August 5, 2005

Synopsis

Set a year after the original, One Missed Call 2 introduces Kyoko and her friend Madoka. Both women are teaching assistants at a kindergarten in the middle of Tokyo. Madoka persuades Kyoko to visit a restaurant where her (Kyoko) boyfriend Naoto works part-time at. Mei-Fueng is the daughter of the cook, and her cellphone rings with the "ringtone of death". However, she is out buying groceries and her father answers it. The call was meant to be for Mei-Feung, but since her father answered it, he hears his own death instead. Later, when the restaurant is closed, Mei-Feung gives Kyoko and Madoka her phone number since she has gotten a new phone number (as well as a new cellphone). Seconds after exchanging numbers, Madoka gets a call with the "ringtone of death".

Naoto is in the kitchen looking for the cook, and discovers him dead with half his face burned off. The police are then alerted. Detective Motomiya comes to the scene first and question Naoto about the death. However, Naoto doesn't mention anything that relates to Mimiko's way of killing. Naoto is then confronted by Detective Takako, who also questions him about the incident. She finds out that the cook heard the "ringtone of death" before his death, and that Naoto heard it right before he found the body (coming from Madoka's phone). Meanwhile, Kyoko and Madoka are video chatting with their phones. Kyoko sees a strange figure behind Madoka, and asks is someone was over. Madoka says that she is alone, but Kyoko sees the figure coming closer. She keeps asking Madoka if she sees something behind her, but Madoka doesn't see anything. The figure reaches for Kyoko through the phone, and in a panic she throws it at the wall, disconnecting her and Madoka. Kyoko rushes to Madoka's apartment to save her, but finds Madoka mutilated in the shower. Naoto and Takako come in soon after (discovering Madoka was about to die). Naoto goes to embrace Kyoko after looking at Madoka's body. Then, Kyoko's phone suddenly rings with the "ringtone of death".

Takako and detective Motomiya investigate the original cellphone murders, searching for Mimiko's grandparents. The find Mimiko's grandmother, who is a Hispanic woman working at a restaurant, she tells Takako that her husband has become mentally ill and was sent to Taiwan.

Takako visits Taiwan and finds Mimiko's grandfather dead with his cellphone in his hand. She discovers from her ex-husband, Yuting, that similar mysterious deaths occurred here, and that both he and she are slated to die within an hour of one another. Kyoko and Naoto decide to go to Taiwan to figure out how to save Kyoko. Takako finds out that the murders actually started from an old mining town, which is now a ghost town. The trio visit an old woman, who is the last person that lived in that town. The old woman tells them that the curse started with a girl named Li Li. Li Li was a "creepy child" who was bullied by the other children of the town. One day, while she is getting bullied, Li Li finally snaps and "curses" everyone in the town. The relatives of the dead became enraged by Li Li's curse, and takes her into the mine where they sew her mouth shut so she can't foretell any more deaths. Li Li is then sealed alive in the mines. Takako, Kyoko, and Naoto then go to the town to investigate the mine.

When they get there, they find the mine locked. Then Takako goes to find another way into the mines, in which she does. However, her flashlight breaks, and she is then knocked out. Takako then dreams about her sister, and saves her from answering the call on the payphone. Takako asks for forgiveness and hugs her sister. When she opens her eyes, her sister has disappeared. Takako then wakes up in the mine. Kyoko is trapped by the vengeful spirit of Li Li, but Naoto is able to bring her to safety. They are pursued by the ghost, and Naoto sacrifices himself by answering Kyoko's ringing cell-phone.

Some time later, Kyoko recovers in a hospital bed.Takako checks her messages and discovers she has one missed call. Some officers from the Taipei Police show up in Kyoko's room and reveal that two bodies were found in the abandoned mine. Confused, Takako goes to Yuting's apartment and discovers his corpse, as well as a video camera which seems to show herself stabbing him. She opens her cellphone, and notices she has a missed call from herself, stamped with a time that passed hours ago (5:58pm is her death time but the current time is 8:05pm on that same day), she looks at her watch this time and notices it has stopped at nothing to become white, the time that she had fallen in the cave. She realizes that Mimiko had stabbed her, and that she had already died at the hands of Mimiko. Spitting out a red hard candy, she is seen smiling as the death ringtone is heard. The ending song is Ai no Inori by Aki.

Cast

Mimura as Kyoko Okudera

Yū Yoshizawa as Naoto Sakurai

Asaka Seto as Takako Nozoe

Peter Ho

Movie 3 (Final)

Format: Tanpatsu

Genre: Mystery, Horror

Episodes: 1

Broadcast network: -

Broadcast period: June 22, 2006

Synopsis

Emiri, a timid high school girl, is bullied mercilessly by her classmates, but when her friend, Asuka, stands up for her, Asuka becomes the target of the bullying instead. Emiri, not wanting to be bullied again, avoids Asuka. Worn down, Asuka attempts to commit suicide, but is saved by the school janitor and remains in a comatose state in the hospital. When the students embark on a class field trip to Korea, Asuka's other self, a vengeful consciousness calling herself "Pam", plots revenge by sending disturbing photos of grisly deaths to the students cell phones. Accompanying these photos is the message: 'Death exemption by forwarding the message.' With one horrific death occurring after another, Emiri races to find the key to the mystery while her classmates rush to pass the message on to save their own lives, sparking a deadly fight for survival.

Cast

Meisa Kuroki
Jang Geun-suk
Maki Horikita
Itsuji Itao