Fresh
Where the average Japanese horror flick is petulant and nasty, Pulse is dolorous, shivery, and surreal.
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
Pulse
Do you want to meet a ghost?
2001 · 1h 59m · R
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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Pulse
Overview
In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.
Director and cast
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa Director
- Haruhiko Kato as Ryosuke Kawashima
- Kumiko Aso as Michi kudo
- Koyuki as Harue Karasawa
- Kurume Arisaka as Junko Sasano
- Masatoshi Matsuo as Toshio Yabe
- Shun Sugata as Boss
- Kenji Mizuhashi as Taguchi
- Masayuki Shionoya as Ghost
- Show Aikawa as Employee
- Jun Fubuki as Michi's Mother
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
76%
Tomatometer
Rotten
It's an apocalyptic ghost story with some eerie images and a surprising turn toward the end, but it bogs down considerably between the good scenes.
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
It's not about blood, gore and oozing innards but unsettling creepiness that gets under a moviegoer's skin and makes the hairs stand up on the back of your neck.
Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rotten
While it's rattling your nerves, Pulse leaves your brain wanting more.
Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times
Fresh
It's best just to give yourself over to its dizzy dreaminess and abstract analysis of the persistent, beckoning throb of the digital underground.
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
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