One Missed Call: Final
One Missed Call: Final is a 2006 horror film and the third and final entry of the One [Missed Call (2003 film)|One Missed Call] trilogy, written by franchise creator Yasushi Akimoto and directed by Manabu Asou.
Plot
High school student Pam hangs herself at school due to severe bullying from her classmates, but she is saved and committed to a hospital in a state of coma. Her friend, Asuka Matsuda, who is also bullied, plans to take revenge against their classmates, all of whom have gone to Busan, South Korea, on a field trip. Using her computer, she clicks her class photo to place the cell phone curse. Her first victim is Azusa Kusunoki; Azusa receives a message accompanied by a photo showing her hanged. At Busan, Azusa is separated from her classmates in a busy marketplace and is killed when a noose drags and hangs her, with her spitting out a red candy afterwards. Teruya Mikami receives the message next, but now accompanied with the text "Death exempt by forwarding the message". He shrugs it off and goes to a restroom, but is killed when a loose telephone wire electrocutes him to death. More students start to receive the message, and they race to forward it to their friends, saving them at the cost of their friends' lives.Asuka's close friend, Emiri Kusama, whose boyfriend, Ahn Jin-woo, is deaf, calls Asuka to stop her, to no avail. They learn that the curse came from Mimiko Mizunuma, a girl who died from asthma. Emiri reveals to Jin-woo that PAM is a nickname for Asuka to denote her status in their class, exposing the current Asuka as her impostor. She also reveals that Asuka became the target of bullying due to standing up for Emiri, who was originally the one bullied first. With Jin-woo's advice, Emiri apologizes to Asuka, awaking the real Asuka.
Realizing that the curse's source is Asuka's computer, Emiri and Jin-woo race to send mails to overload the computer's inbox, with help from their friends who spread the news through South Korea and Japan. While sending mails, Emiri's computer connects with Asuka's at the same time when Asuka comes back home. The two have a conversation, but when Emiri receives the cursed message, both are transported to different places in their school. Finding Asuka about to commit suicide with Mimiko, Emiri recalls their promise to visit the shore and offers herself to replace Asuka. Before Mimiko can do so, Asuka's computer is overloaded and the two are sent back to their previous places. While parting ways with Emiri, Jin-woo snatches her phone, and forwards the message to himself. Afterwards, he is violently killed as Emiri watches in shock. Some time later, Asuka and Emiri, the latter having lost her ability to speak and walk due to all the events that occurred, visit the shore as promised.
Cast
- Maki Horikita as Asuka Matsuda / PAM
- Meisa Kuroki as Emiri Kusama
- Jang Keun-suk as Ahn Jin-woo
- Erika Asakura as Minori Yazawa
- Yū Kamiwaki as Mari Shimazaki
- Rakuto Tochihara as Shinichi Imahara
- Kazuma Yamane as Teruya Mikami
- Takashi Yamagata as Takehiro Koizumi
- Mami Hashimoto as Mizue Kawanaka
- Miho Amakawa as Azusa Kusunoki
- Ayumi Takahashi as Tomoka Manabe
- Ryu Morioka as Hiroyuki Tsukamoto
- Yuta Murakami as Toru Akaike
- Karen Oshima as Mimiko Mizunuma
- Yoshiko Noda as Misaki Sonoda
- Itsuji Itao as Yoshitaka Kibe