kairo and or pulse as it known amongst english speaking audiences and is set in tokyo and starts as sunny plant sales employee michi kudo (kumiko aso) decides to visit her friend taguchi (kenji mizuhashi) to enquire about a computer disk he been working on and when she gets to his place he gives her the disk but then rather inconsiderately commits suicide in front of her. meanwhile a student named ryosuke kawashima (haruhiko kato) has recently hooked up to the internet and keeps getting spooky messages and images on his monitor so he ask computer whizz harue karasawa (koyuki) whats happening and she doesn not really know but it seems that the place where people spirits go when they die is full and they need somewhere else to go and earth is as good a place as any and right. these spirits do not like sharing either so they sort of make people commit suicide or turn them into ashes or something like that and i do not really know because the films a bit of a mess. this japanese production was written and directed by kiyoshi kurosawa and right off the bat i have to say i hated kairo and i hated everything about it and it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that asian cinema can produce something as crap as any american filmmaker. the script is an overlong mess and the thing simply doesn not make any sense with scenes which seem like they are from a different film and sequences which make no logical sense or are not explained in any way and kairo is also the most downright boring film i have sat through this year. at two hours long this is a real chore to sit through and i really wanted to fast forward it but i am fair if nothing else so i stuck it out to the bitter end and frankly wished i hadn not. there are so many things wrong with kairo and i suppose the filmmakers were going for a surreal ambiguous and deliberately incoherent feel but those are traits which i despise in a film unless they are done properly. then there the whole internet thing which i just couldn not relate to at all and i use the internet all day and it not in the least bit scary to me in any way. then there the fact that kairo as a film provided zero entertainment value for me and maybe i am a neanderthal but i kind of like the films i watch to entertain me and make some sort of sense and not bore me to death. director kurosawa has made the ultimate insomnia cure as far as i am concerned and if you have trouble getting to sleep stick this in the dvd and you be fast asleep within 10 minutes i guarantee you. i do not think kairo was scary in the slightest and the whole internet thing was laughable and as for scary you should see some of the penis enlargement pop up ads i get and now that scary. i hate this film and i hate this film and i am sorry i just need to make that basic point again and twice. forget about any action and tension or gore as there isn not any. if you have a very nervous disposition then there are maybe a couple of scenes which might creep you out otherwise this is kiddie friendly pg rated stuff all the way. urgh. the film looks so dull and boring it untrue and the camera just sits there for very long shots and when it does move it moves very slowly and this has all the style of a mexican soap opera. since kairo is sub titled it difficult to judge the original performances so i would not bother and it hard to care for someone when they do not even speak the same language and you do not know what they are saying. kairo is crap and i hated it and it as simple and straight forward as that. just because it an asian flick doesn not automatically make it any good and the mess of a story and the plot holes and the fact it makes no sense and it an absolute bore means kairo would rightly be torn to shreds by people if it were an american production. the worst film i have seen this year by some distance. kairo got a hollywood remake as pulse (2006). 
kairo and or pulse as it known amongst english speaking audiences and is set in tokyo and starts as sunny plant sales employee michi kudo (kumiko aso) decides to visit her friend taguchi (kenji mizuhashi) to enquire about a computer disk he been working on and when she gets to his place he gives her the disk but then rather inconsiderately commits suicide in front of her. meanwhile a student named ryosuke kawashima (haruhiko kato) has recently hooked up to the internet and keeps getting spooky messages and images on his monitor so he ask computer whizz harue karasawa (koyuki) whats happening and she doesn not really know but it seems that the place where people spirits go when they die is full and they need somewhere else to go and earth is as good a place as any and right. these spirits do not like sharing either so they sort of make people commit suicide or turn them into ashes or something like that and i do not really know because the films a bit of a mess. this japanese production was written and directed by kiyoshi kurosawa and right off the bat i have to say i hated kairo and i hated everything about it and it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that asian cinema can produce something as crap as any american filmmaker. the script is an overlong mess and the thing simply doesn not make any sense with scenes which seem like they are from a different film and sequences which make no logical sense or are not explained in any way and kairo is also the most downright boring film i have sat through this year. at two hours long this is a real chore to sit through and i really wanted to fast forward it but i am fair if nothing else so i stuck it out to the bitter end and frankly wished i hadn not. there are so many things wrong with kairo and i suppose the filmmakers were going for a surreal ambiguous and deliberately incoherent feel but those are traits which i despise in a film unless they are done properly. then there the whole internet thing which i just couldn not relate to at all and i use the internet all day and it not in the least bit scary to me in any way. then there the fact that kairo as a film provided zero entertainment value for me and maybe i am a neanderthal but i kind of like the films i watch to entertain me and make some sort of sense and not bore me to death. director kurosawa has made the ultimate insomnia cure as far as i am concerned and if you have trouble getting to sleep stick this in the dvd and you be fast asleep within 10 minutes i guarantee you. i do not think kairo was scary in the slightest and the whole internet thing was laughable and as for scary you should see some of the penis enlargement pop up ads i get and now that scary. i hate this film and i hate this film and i am sorry i just need to make that basic point again and twice. forget about any action and tension or gore as there isn not any. if you have a very nervous disposition then there are maybe a couple of scenes which might creep you out otherwise this is kiddie friendly pg rated stuff all the way. urgh. the film looks so dull and boring it untrue and the camera just sits there for very long shots and when it does move it moves very slowly and this has all the style of a mexican soap opera. since kairo is sub titled it difficult to judge the original performances so i would not bother and it hard to care for someone when they do not even speak the same language and you do not know what they are saying. kairo is crap and i hated it and it as simple and straight forward as that. just because it an asian flick doesn not automatically make it any good and the mess of a story and the plot holes and the fact it makes no sense and it an absolute bore means kairo would rightly be torn to shreds by people if it were an american production. the worst film i have seen this year by some distance. kairo got a hollywood remake as pulse (2006). ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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