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It was later followed by two sequels - One Missed Call 2 and One Missed Call: Final - and an American remake. A ten-episode TV series was made in 2005. Manga adaptations and a pachinko video game were also produced. Tropes used by the films:.: Featured in the original and the remake, as a key location where the protagonist goes to try and find the origin of the curse. In the remake it's not only abandoned, but also burnt out after a deadly fire.: In both versions - social services suspected this to be the case with Marie. Actually subverted - it was an abusive sister.
Marie discovered the abuse just before she and Mimiko/Ellie died. There is also Yumi/Beth themselves.
Their mother is physically and emotionally abusive (they freaking put their cigarette on their daughter's hand) and is implied to have a hand in forcing their mother/husband to commit suicide.: The remake. The ending, which is quite different from the original's, breaks the established rules of the film and curse in more ways than one and quite blatantly (whereas the original only sort of 'stretched' them).: Takako's twin sister answered the death call and died just days later. This fueled Takako's decision to become a detective and be able to end the curse.: The male teacher from the third film., You almost spectate for Mimiko when a student is lucky enough to hide her phone and text him, inciting a horrific case of.: Cell phones. Though admittedly, the phones themselves aren't sentient.: The teacher from the third film suffers this.: Mimiko in the first and third films.
Li Li in the second film.: The ending of the third (and final) film. While the flow of the curse is finally stopped, it still resides in the last phone it invaded: Emiri's. Jin-wo snatches the phone and dies in Emiri's place.
This leads to Emiri's catatonia. However, Emiri and Asuka have mended their relationship and it's implied that Asuka has become Emiri's caretaker.
Plus, they manage to visit the beach like they have promised years before.: Jin-wo in the third film. Look at how Emiri's friends start gawking at his photo near the beginning of the film. He is played by the very pretty Jang Keun-suk ( ).: In the remake. Poor Meagan Good.: And will reach you, through any phone. And if you should somehow lose or destroy your phone, it will kindly return it to you.:. Each victim spits out a hard red candy, which the killer gave to her victim when she was taken to the hospital. In the first sequel, Li Li's victims instead have coal dust from the mine she was sealed in found in their stomach.
The remake adds another element in which the victims see ghastly visions of a woman with mouths where her eyes should be, a man with a cracked face, and centipedes everywhere. All of them are representations of things that could be found in Ellie's bedroom.: In the first movie, Yumi and Yamashita are investigating an abandoned apartment when suddenly a noisy flock of pigeons flies past the window.
In the remake, there's a literal one - after the first victim is killed by being pulled into a pond by a ghostly hand, the shot changes to a close up of her cat - who is then, suddenly and nonsensically, dispatched in the same manner.: A literal one in Yumi's classroom scene, where we are taught what is. The ghost has it.: Mimiko, as revealed in the first sequel.: The remake replaces the original's with one of these. Marie's ghost shows up to save Beth by trapping Ellie's spirit in her cell phone - but the movie closes on the cell phone ringing ominously.: Marie, the mother of Mimiko/Ellie. On the other hand, Marie did allow Mimiko to die rather than find help for her and the first sequel revealed that she wished Mimiko was never born and likely abused her, so she is no innocent herself. This doesn't apply to the remake, where Marie left before Ellie started gasping for air and didn't know she was dying.: Mimiko, or Ellie in the remake. And in One Missed Call 2, both her and Li Li.
Although she's not evil, the remake does its best to make Laurel, the little sister of the killer ghost, as creepy as possible.: Yoko is pushed in front of a train and has her arm and leg cut off, Kenji is pushed to his death in an elevator shaft, Natsumi decapitates herself. Then there's some of the deaths featured in the third film, including: strangled by electric cords, mutilated by laundry machine, literally having your heart ripped off.: The killer ghost wasn't of the mother of the two girls, it was the older sister.: Some of the gruesome supernatural deaths, in all four movies, occur in broad daylight.: Yumi mentions that her father was hardly at home, which allowed her mother to do all kinds of horrific abuses to her.
She could only find solace in her grandmother, who eventually committed suicide. In the US remake, Beth's father was there for her, until his suicide. Mimiko and Nanako only lived with their mother; a father figure is never mentioned.
In the sequel, it's revealed that Mimiko's father was a lunatic who was killed by her grandfather. That still leaves the identity of Nanako's father unanswered.: Marie, the mother of Mimiko/Ellie.: Yumi is ultimately killed by Mimiko and becomes a part of her curse, though this isn't particularly well-explained until the sequel. Beth doesn't die in the remake, but the ending is ambiguous as to whether she's really safe.: The second film, as well as the US remake. In the second film, the only surviving protagonist is Kyoko; Naoto sacrifices himself for Kyoko's sake, while Takako has been killed by Mimiko back in the mines after unknowingly receiving the cursed call, followed by Mimiko using her body to kill Yuting in his apartment. Takako doesn't realize this until she discovers Yuting's corpse. Oh, and the curse is still very active, considering that there's two branches of the curse out there. In the US remake, Jack is killed, and though Beth survives the ordeal thanks to Marie's intervention, it is unknown whether she's really safe, since Jack's phone then begins to dial a number.: Yumi/Beth's grandmother/father.
It's implied that their abusive mothers drove them to do that. In the third film, Mimiko wants Asuka to commit this. It's ultimately subverted, thanks to Emiri's intervention.: Emiri undergoes this after Jin-wo sacrifices himself to save her in the third film. It's implied to be permanent.: One of the deaths in the first film happens when an elevator's doors open without the car actually being there.: The phones themselves aren't evil, but they are used as a transmission vector for a ghostly curse.: The series originally started as a novel, which was adapted to a film. It eventually received two sequels, all under the supervision of the novel's writer (Yasushi Akimoto).:. Subverted, since the spirit has. More subverted in One Missed Call 2, which clarifies the ending of the first film to explain that Mimiko and Li Li are searching for more people like them to convert, which is still evil but at least a motive.
In the remake it is not so subverted however, since after its first few victims, the ghost really seems to have no reason to kill anybody besides plain old sociopathy.: At the end of the first movie, Yumi is confronted by the ghost, but then Yamashita shows up to talk to her and she seems fine. Until she stabs him.
And then he sees Mimiko's reflection in the mirror where Yumi should be. Then he wakes up in a hospital bed, and Yumi's alone in the room with him. She has a knife hidden behind her back. She somberly leans over and kisses him, transferring a red candy from her mouth to his. He sucks on it in close-up, then looks up to Yumi, who's now smiling happily as if she were laughing at something.
Roll credits! Over a cheery J-pop love song, no less.: Mimiko is looking for people like her who felt abused or wronged (her mother left her to die) to turn into more vengeful ghosts. In the second movie, it turns out this was actually Li Li's goal first, and Mimiko was one of the people she 'converted.' .: Being set in Taiwan, the first sequel has some dialogue conducted in Mandarin, though since most of the actors are still Japanese, they aren't quite on-the-spot. To her defense, Takako does say that she's only conversant in Mandarin and would rather speak Japanese had her interlocutors could speak the latter.: Phones, mainly. In the third film, this also includes a computer.: In addition to the creepy ringtone, the first movie and remake have the sound of Mimiko/Ellie's asthma inhaler.: Naoto in the first sequel.
Just as his girlfriend Kyoko is about to be killed by Li Li, he manages to get to Kyoko's cell phone and answer it, so he will die instead of her. Repeated again in the second sequel, with Jin-wo.
Even after stopping Mimiko from marking more victims, all curses that are still active cannot be undone, and this includes Emiri's.
What will it sound like when you die? In 'One Missed Call,' a chain of people receive terrifying cell phone messages of their own final fatal moments. Though the messages can be deleted, their number is up.
Beth Raymond (Shannyn Sossamon) is traumatized when she witnesses the gruesome deaths of two friends just days apart. Even more disturbing, she knows that both of them had received chilling cell phone messages - actual recordings of their own horrifying last moments. Impossibly, the calls were received days before they died, but each death occurred precisely when and how the messages foretold. The police think Beth is delusional - except for Detective Jack Andrews (Edward Burns) whose own sister was killed in a freak accident that bears a strange similarity to the deaths of Beth's friends. Together, Jack and Beth work feverishly to unravel the mystery behind the ominous calls. But even as they get closer to the truth, Beth's cell phone begins to ring with an eerie tune, and the readout says One Missed Call.