![]() New Media Are Evil / New Technology Is Evil: Though it's not the computers or internet themselves that are evil, it's that they're allowing ghosts to invade the living.Mind Screw: Even if you understand the basic premise of what is happening, the movie is confusing and keeps the viewer off-balance.Haunted Technology: Pretty much every computer, disk, or any other technology is most likely infested with ghosts.The ghost Kawashima encounters at the end seems to confirm the latter. Harue posits that everyone in the world is born alone, and that they'll be forever alone in the afterlife as well. Go Mad from the Isolation: A variation where nobody is physically isolated from each other, but technology and loneliness have prevented them from forming real connections with other people.Dwindling Party: One by one, the characters that we meet begin to die or disappear until only Ryosuke and Michi are left.Driven to Suicide: Michi's coworker Taguchi, followed by others throughout the film.Downer Ending: When all is said and done, Tokyo and likely most or all of Japan are in ruins, we've learned that similar things are happening all over the world, Ryosuke is dead or worse, and Michi is the only named character who is for sure still alive, and her eventual fate is uncertain.Arbitrary Skepticism: Kawashima declares that he'll never believe in ghosts even if he meets one and refuses to give in to the despair that seems to be overtaking everyone else. ![]() Apocalypse How: By the end of the film, we learn that events similar to those in Tokyo are taking place all over the world, implying at least a Class 2 disaster.All There in the Manual: Kawashima is only ever referred to by surname in the movie, and his first name is only revealed in the credits and supplemental material.The Japanese original contains examples of: Not to be confused with the 2012 Puzzle Game Kairo. Kurosawa himself later adapted the script into a novel. Set during the computer boom and the birth of the internet in the early 2000s, the film features two protagonists: Michi Kudo, a young worker who just moved to Tokyo, who finds herself plagued by strange and frightening events that seem somehow connected to computers and the internet after one of her coworkers kills himself and Ryosuke Kawashima, a college student who has noticed his own computer exhibiting strange behavior and showing him videoes of people alone in dark rooms, acting bizarrely.Īs disappearances, suicides, disasters, and ghost sightings begin to pile up around them, Michi and Ryosuke struggle to find an explanation for what is happening and if it's even possible to stop it.Īn American remake titled Pulse (no relation to the 1988 horror film of the same name) was released in 2006, starring Kristen Bell, Ian Somerhalder, and Christina Milian, and was followed by two sequels, both released in 2008. Kairo, also known as Pulse (or sometimes Circuit) in English, is a 2001 Japanese horror film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
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