History Film / OneMissedCall

* DaylightHorror: Some of the gruesome supernatural deaths, in all four movies, occur in broad daylight.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: In the remake. Poor Meagan Good.

* {{Bishonen}}: Jin-wo in the third film. Look at how Emiri's friends start gawking at ''his photo'' near the beginning of the film. He ''is'' played by the very pretty Jang Keun-suk ([[RetroactiveRecognition in one of his first lead film roles]]).

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Asuka and Emiri's relationship comes across very much as this. Complete with their "breakup" when Emiri distanced herself and allowed Asuka to be bullied, and reconciling at the end, [[spoiler: even with Emiri's catatonic state.]]

%% * FamousLastWords: All of the victims' final words.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Yumi/Beth's grandmother/father. It's implied that their abusive mothers drove them to do that.]]
** In the third film, [[spoiler: Mimiko wants Asuka to commit this. It's ultimately subverted, thanks to Emiri's intervention.]]

* SpookyPhotographs: In the first movie, [[spoiler:Natsumi]] gets these instead of a voicemail from the future. Replaced with a video in the remake.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: What the curse does to [[spoiler:Natsumi]].

* AssholeVictim: Kibe, the male teacher from the third film. [[{{Jerkass}} He confiscates all of the students' phones]], [[DirtyCoward just to protect himself from being texted against.]] You almost spectate for Mimiko when [[spoiler:a student is lucky enough to hide her phone and text him, inciting a horrific case of BeatStillMyHeart.]]

*** [[spoiler:Azusa, Teruya, and anyone else who bullied Emiri and Asuke also fit the bill]].

** Also from the third film, [[spoiler:Takehiro. When the death message is forwarded to Akaike, Takehiro and [[JapaneseDelinquents his friends]] lock the poor boy in a closet, preventing him from reaching his phone and thus killing him. Later on, the death message is then forwarded to Takehiro by Shinichi, as revenge for the death of Akaike.]]

** Also from the third film, [[spoiler:Takehiro. When the death message is forwarded to Akaike, Takehiro and [[JapaneseDelinquents his friends]] lock the poor boy in a closet, preventing him from reaching his phone and thus killing him. Later on, the death message is then forwarded to Takehiro by Shinichi, as revenge for the death of Akaike.

** Also from the third film, [[spoiler:Takehiro. When the death message is forwarded to Akaike, Takehiro and [[JapaneseDelinquents his friends]] lock the poor boy in a closet, preventing him from reaching his phone and thus killing him. Later on, the death message is then forwarded to Takehiro by Shinichi, as revenge for the death of Akaike. Azusa, Teruya, and anyone else who bullied Emiri and Asuke also fit the bill]].

** There is also Yumi/Beth themselves. Their mother is physically and emotionally abusive (they freaking ''put their cigarette on their daughter's hand'') and is implied to have a hand in [[spoiler: forcing their mother/husband to commit suicide.]]

** Also from the third film, [[spoiler:Takehiro. When the death message is forwarded to Aikake, Takehiro and [[JapaneseDelinquents his friends]] lock the poor boy in a closet, preventing him from reaching his phone and thus killing him. Later on, the death message is then forwarded to Takehiro by Sinyichi, as revenge for the death of Aikake]].

* AngstySurvivingTwin: Takako in the sequel, as part of her DarkAndTroubledPast. When they were children, her twin sister answered the death call and died just days later. This fueled Takako's decision to become a detective and be able to end the curse.

* AngstySurvivingTwin: Takako's twin sister answered the death call and died just days later. This fueled Takako's decision to become a detective and be able to end the curse.

** The sequel shows that if you answer the planned victim's missed call, the victim with survive but you will be killed in that person's place.

* ShownTheirWork: Viewers might snark a little when Takako questions an old Taiwanese woman who lived in Li Li's village whether she could speak Japanese (she could) as a way for the film to do away with speaking Mandarin. This isn't far-fetched; Taiwan ''was'' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_under_Japanese_rule under Japanese rule for 50 years]], in which Japanese became the sole language for education, and well, we all know how nationalistic and aggresive Imperial Japan was in regard to indigenous cultures (just ask Korea). If anything, most of the elderly generations left ''cannot'' speak Mandarin well (it having only been introduced when the Kuomintang moved to Taiwan after the Communist takeover) and can only speak Japanese and Hokkien.

* TheSpeechless: Jin-wo in the third film. Yet he's somehow could understand Japanese just by reading the lips. [[spoiler: His girlfriend, Emiri, also becomes this after he sacrifices himself for her. It's not quite this though (see DumbStruck above), since she ''could'' hear, but not speak.]]
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: In the second film, Takako and Motomiya discuss about the events of the previous year and, in the process, recount that Yamashita (one of the previous film's protagonists) had died under the hands of the Mimiko-possessed Yumi. [[spoiler: Yumi herself is eventually told to be this; her corpse is found while Takako and co. are still in Taiwan. Motomiya, too, if the Japanese detectives who tell Takako are to be believed.]]

** In the first movie [[spoiler: everyone who receives the call dies. Even if the announced time passed and you are still alive, the clock will turn back anticlockwise to aforementioned time and you will still be killed. (Such was Yumi's case.)]]

--> "You won't die if you forward this." [[spoiler: Made especially creepy when said by Mimiko.]]