Best movie of this year hands down!

best movie i've ever seen.

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Yet another Japanese horror flick about a LONG-HAIRED FEMALE GHOST slaughtering people. Once the Japanese get stuck on a shtick, they never ever let go, do they. It's a shame, because there are talented directors in the Land of The Rising Long-Haired Female Ghosts, but the scripts tend to be nearly always clones of one another. After all, the Japanese aren't known for originality.You gotta love the Japanese though. A girl has just inadvertently killed her own boyfriend (who had attacked her, because possessed by a ghost), and what do her parents do upon picking her up from the police station? They berate her for not taking her school seriously enough. You'd never see this in a Western movie, which is just one of the many reasons why Japanese films are so weird.A bracelet won't come off – AND your wrist is turning purple and blue underneath it? Ever thought about going to an emergency room? Whether this is a dumb aspect of a badly written film or perhaps something closely related to Japanese culture, I simply don't know. Perhaps it would have been "shameful" for the teeny-bopper to have gone to a doctor "just" for a stuck bracelet and a hand that looks as if it's in advanced stages of gangrene. After all, what's amputation compared to the loss of "face"? What's a little limb-loss compared to being shunned? Meanwhile, the train-station guard is busy covering up all his knowledge about the ghost – just so he can have his crappy job back. It's not as if though he is trying to get back a job as a CEO or something, but as a train-driver, so his stubbornness and unwillingness to help the girls solve the mystery of a fast-climbing number of disappearances (including kids, no less) hits a distinct "duh" note for me. Again, perhaps this is just a Japanese thing: career and social status take precedence over human life, I just don't know.Eventually, the former train-driver not only joins the effort to solve the mystery, but actually blows up the entrance to Hell (or whatever it is), thinking that this way he'd solved the problem. But did he? Once that station is cleared up of all the rubble (and knowing Japanese expediency, it wouldn't take long) there is no reason why construction workers won't be finding that demonic "entrance" again. Which brings us to the possibility of a sequel. Is there one? I'm not interested.The BFF sub-plot about the blossoming – and very sudden – friendship between the female protagonist (an awful actress, BTW) and the bracelet-hating teenie-bopper is utterly stupid and completely out-of-place, and comes off as an intrusion perpetrated by a neighbouring teen-drama movie-set.

Oh gosh,I'm really fed up with all these generic Japanese horror films about long-haired female ghosts and ghostly kids."Ghost Train" is no exception.It is clearly influenced by "Ringu","Ju-On","Shutter" and "Pulse".Two years ago I was into such modern ghost stories,because they usually managed to give me some goosebumps,unfortunately there is nothing fresh or interesting in "Ghost Train".In fact the film is really boring.Noriko goes missing in a subway tunnel-like an elementary-school classmate-Nana must investigate a mystery of multiple disappearances,with the help of a youthful train conductor and another "disappeared" child's mother.The film offers some mildly creepy moments,however the CGI effects are laughable and the climax is illogical.Skip it.

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.