Pulse

回路 (2001)

Timing: 1:59 (119 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2001-02-03

Country

Japan

Production

Nippon Television Network Corporation, Hakuhodo, IMAGICA, Daiei Film

Genre

Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Budget

$25 000 000

Revenue

$318 451

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Director

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Actors

Kumiko Aso, Haruhiko Kato, Koyuki, Kurume Arisaka, Masatoshi Matsuo, Shinji Takeda, Kenji Mizuhashi, Shun Sugata, Ken Furusawa, Teruo Ono
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Producer

Seiji Okuda, Atsuyuki Shimoda, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Shun Shimizu, Ken Inoue, Yasuyoshi Tokuma

Operator

Junichiro Hayashi

Composer

Takefumi Haketa

Artist

Audition

Editing

Jun'ichi Kikuchi
All team (21)

• The Japanese title of the film, written in hieroglyphs, means "scheme".
• Many scenes in the film were shot from windows.
• The scene in which a woman throws herself from the roof of a high-rise building was relatively simple to produce. It required editing, computer graphics, and the work of a stunt double. As the director Kiyoshi Kurosawa himself explained, they first filmed a stuntwoman jumping from the roof with a safety harness, then filmed the fall of a mannequin in the same clothes, after which they combined everything and digitally removed the safety cable from the image.
• Kawashima reviews people's faces on a computer monitor and sees a bearded man who looks up and stares directly into his eyes. That bearded man was the screenwriter and director Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
• The original title can be translated as "The Scheme" or "The Chain."