Ghost Train (2006)

Really Surprised!

Beautiful, moving film.

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

"I want what's mine." A little boy named Takashi picks up a train pass off of the sidewalk and is told by a creepy specter that he will die for doing so. On board a train(all alone which is a no-no), Takashi is carried away from inside the train when it stops temporarily(due to a woman standing on the tracks)setting up the story for GHOST TRAIN. A rookie subway train conductor, Shunichi(Shun Oguri), continues to see the mangled body of a woman, yet when he tells his boss he's considered a little "off in the head" and reduced to working in the station house until he gets his head on straight. Nana(Erika Sawajiri) is the big sister to one of Takashi's classmates, Noriko. Noriko finds the pass and winds up missing. Nana and Noriko's mom has a serious heart problem. Shigeru finds a bracelet while he and some students are riding the subway home and gives it to Kanae(Chinatsu Wakatsuki) as a token of their potential relationship. This bracelet seals the fate of those who touched it like the train pass. Mizunashi tunnel is the place which seems to have been the setting for the fate of the ghost showing up to "kidnap" victims who turn up on "missing persons" boards due to the fact that they were last seen near the subway station. Through all this a friendship develops between Nana and Kanae. A young woman named Yaeko, whose name is on the train pass returned to lost and found over and over, could be responsible. Kawamura also works in the station house, and may know more than he lets on about Yaeko. Kanae narrowly escapes certain death thanks to Kumi(Aya Sugimoto),a woman who lost her son(and eye)to Yaeko. While Nana pursues the mystery in regards to Yaeko, and attempt to find her sister, she'll make another startling revelation within the tunnel, a secret buried deep. The ending is sentimental and saccharine as the power of love and friendship are embellished as Nana faces all sorts of peril and will need the help of others if she is to escape with Takashi intact trying to evade a whole mass of ghouls crawling all throughout the cavernous walls towards them. Shunichi will assist Nana in operating the train as the trio must avoid the ghouls as they descend upon them. What separates this from the formula Onyro films is that the final result strays away from the usual "appeasing the ghost by reconnecting her to whatever has kept her spirit restless all this time since death" because something even more sinister lies inside the walls of the tunnels. A heavy dependence on CGI is quite visible throughout, but Yaeko is quite a creepy presence, particularly in one scene where her reflection appears following Noriko on a window, recorded from a camera in the subway.

This is a relatively nice movie for me. This movie deals a lot with friendship among two people, and really does remind me of One Missed Call Final. This movie is original. The entertaining scenes takes place in a train station. The opening scene in this movie is scary. I like the plot used in this movie. I like the cave like setting of this movie. I don't know why this movie is rated so low. The cave like setting for this movie and the use of the train station in this movie is very original. I love the ending in this movie. This movie is a little touching as well. However, there are flaws in this movie. The acting in this movie is a little poor. The GCI effects were very poor except for the last ten minutes. The whole movie was not scary at all. There were only two scenes that were scary. Tension and fear was not built very well in this movie. This movie becomes very melodramatic at times, and its pacing becomes just as slow as a snail,especially the scene where the girl calls her friend using the hand phone. This movie is one of the least scariest Japanese horror movies, but not the worst definitely. This movie shows that a good movie need not be scary. This movie is really entertaining and has some very interesting ideas, like the use of the bracelet being stuck to one of the girl's hand. The train station scene in this movie is nowhere as creepy or spooky as The Red Shoes. This movie is entertaining, though not as great as some of the other J-horrors such as Ringu, Ju-on or One Missed Call.

I've been watching a lot of Asian horror movies lately, but this one has to be the worst so far. It started out interestingly enough, but lost momentum after the first 15 minutes of the movie. The added "drama" scenes, flashback sequences and serious plot holes left me hanging. What really happened in the tunnel? Just "something terrible"??? Who started all the killing if it wasn't the ghost? What did she want returned to her????? No answers whatsoever! Overall, not very scary at all and the movie makers need to come up with a lot better ideas than this...One positive was the cute actress, but that's about it.Not recommended.

When i first saw the movie poster for this movie, i expected it to be an extremely generic J-horror film like what most of us have been watching for the past years. I entered the theater not really expecting much plot-wise but more eye candy instead.The movie started like most J-horrors that roughly tell you the back-story to the film. It was only slightly scary and the "jump" points in this film were few and far between.Basically, the premise of this film is about a haunted train tunnel and how a girl's brother went missing due to it. The story progresses with the girl acquiring new acquaintances and setting out to solve the mystery of the ghostly sightings.This is a very generic and expected film so i would say, skip it or get it on home video instead for one of those stay-in days.