After kidnapping a young girl for ransom, two money hungry teens take her to an abandoned school to hide out while waiting for the girls parents to fork up some dough, during which time they come to find that the girl has been dead for exactly one year to that date. If the girl is dead then who did they kidnap?
So we open the movie with two teens, Mitsuru and Maki, who have just kidnapped a little girl from a playground in hopes to earn a hefty ransom from her parents. When finding out who the girl is Maki call her parents to demand ransom money in return for their child. The parents inform her that their daughter had died exactly one year to the day of the kidnapping. Confused and creeped out Maki and Mitsuru come to find that the little girl has disappeared within the confines of the school, so they go out looking around for her.
The parents of the girl are confused and creeped out too seeing as they think that their daughter is dead but after one year getting the call they gain hope that she might actually be alive. So they go to a spiritualist for answers as to where she is but their fears are correct, the girl is still very much dead.
 
Back at the school a few of Mitsuru's friends come out to the school to try to scare him by making strange ghost noises over the intercom but they arrive to be greeted by a ghost of someone from their past. The ghost rips off the friends left hands and leaves them dead in their own puddle of blood, hand a foot from it's bloody stump, with no reason other than revenge. On the other hand the little girl pops up and disappears periodically through the movie then comes back at the end leaving so many questions for the viewer.
I feel that if the ending of this movie wasn't so hard to understand, if it had a little more content and explanation, that this movie would have been a pretty solid and great ghost story but it came up a little short. I did love the clicking ghost, kinda gives that Ju-On feeling, but to me the evil ghost should have had more on screen time, she kinda disappears near the end and we never find out what the hell she did after she got her revenge.
In all I'd say watch this movie for what it is, just dont expect to understand the ending or be happy about it. The story is pretty cool until that point, just needs a little something more...
If this movie would have been a little longer with a little more background story it would have been really cool but it lacks alot of content in the story. I still suggest it to viewers because it does have alot of twists and turns, almost too much for one movie.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Purei
MOVIE YEAR: 2005
DIRECTOR: Yuichi Sato
WRITING CREDITS: Tomoko Ogawa
GENRE: Horror, Thriller
CAST: Katsuya Kobayashi, Fumiyo Kohinata, Sanae Miyata
COUNTRY: Japan
RUNTIME: 77 min
RATING: 6/10
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