History Film / OneMissedCall

* 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.]]

* BeatStillMyHeart: [[spoiler: The {{Jerkass}} teacher from the third film suffers this.]]

* {{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]]).

* WomanInWhite: Marie, plus [[spoiler:Mimiko]]. Yumi at the end of the first movie [[spoiler: possibly due to her death.]]

* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: [[spoiler:Jin-wo]] in ''Final''. [[spoiler:He explains to his girlfriend Emiri that at the Sign Language Summit where they had first met, he learned of the death call and how it worked from a deaf violinist whose girlfriend was killed by it. [[MyGreatestFailure The violinist knew that he could’ve saved her by taking the call and dying in her place, but he didn’t, and forever regretted it]], to the point of purposefully punishing himself until he went deaf. Then near the end of the movie, Jin-wo tells Emiri that knowing her made him stronger, and that he won’t regret again. It’s this that makes her put two-and-two together to realize that the deaf violinist was ''him''. And then as he leaves, she notices that [[OhCrap her phone (which had the death message forwarded to her during the climax) is]] '''[[OhCrap gone]]''', and realizes with horror as the door immediately locks behind him so she can’t follow, she once again hears the cursed ringtone, and sees her phone in his hand, what [[HeroicSacrifice he had really meant by]] ''[[HeroicSacrifice “I won’t regret again”]]''…]]

* OffWithHerHead: [[spoiler:Natsumi]] does this to [[spoiler:'''herself''']] when the curse possesses her body.]]

* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: In the third film, [[spoiler: Sinyichi]] forwards his death message to one of the JapaneseDelinquents who killed [[spoiler: his friend Aikake]] by preventing him from reaching his phone.

** 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 Sinyishi, as revenge for the death of Aikake]].

* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: In the third film, [[spoiler: Sinyishi]] forwards his death message to one of the JapaneseDelinquents who killed [[spoiler: his friend Aikake]] by preventing him from reaching his phone.

** Also from the third film, [[spoiler:Takehiro]]. When the death message is forwarded to [[spoiler:Aikake]], [[spoiler: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 Sinyishi, as revenge for the death of Aikake]].

* AssholeVictim: 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.]]

* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: [[spoiler:Jin-wo]] in ''Final''. [[spoiler:He explains to his girlfriend Emiri that at the Sign Language Summit where they had first met, he learned of the death call and how it worked from a deaf violinist whose girlfriend was killed by it. [[MyGreatestFailure The violinist knew that he could’ve saved her by taking the call and dying in her place, but he didn’t, and forever regretted it]], to the point of purposefully punishing himself until he went deaf. Then near the end of the movie, Jin-wo tells Emiri that knowing her made him stronger, and that he won’t regret again. It’s this that makes her put two-and-two together to realize that the deaf violinist was ''him''. And then as he leaves, she notices that [[OhCrap her phone (which had the death message forwarded to her during the climax) is]] '''[[OhCrap gone]]''', and realizes with horror as the door immediately locks behind him so she can’t follow, she once again hears the cursed ringtone, and sees her phone in his hand, what [[HeroicSacrifice he had really meant by “I won’t regret again”]]…]]

* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: [[spoiler:Jin-wo]] in ''Final''. [[spoiler:He explains to his girlfriend Emiri that at the Sign Language Summit where they had first met, he learned of the death call and how it worked from a deaf violinist whose girlfriend was killed by it. [[MyGreatestFailure The violinist knew that he could’ve saved her by taking the call and dying in her place, but he didn’t, and forever regretted it]], to the point of purposefully punishing himself until he went deaf. Then near the end of the movie, Jin-wo tells Emiri that knowing her made him stronger, and that he won’t regret again. It’s this that makes her put two-and-two together to realize that the deaf violinist was ''him''. And then after he leaves, she notices that her phone is gone, and realizes with horror as she hears the cursed ringtone, and sees her phone in his hand, what [[HeroicSacrifice he had really meant by “I won’t regret again”]]…]]

* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: [[spoiler: Sinyishi]] forwards his death message to one of the JapaneseDelinquents who killed [[spoiler: his friend Aikake]] by preventing him from reaching his phone.

** Then there's some of the deaths featured in the third film, including: [[spoiler: strangled by electric cords, mutilated by laundry machine, literally having ''your heart'' ripped off.]]

* ChekhovsLecture: A literal one in Yumi's classroom scene, where we are taught what MunchausensByProxy is. [[spoiler: The ghost has it]]

* EvilHand: [[:Natsumi]]'s hand becomes possessed by the evil spirit and forces her to [[spoiler:[[OffWithHerHead rip her own head off.]]]]

* AbusiveParents: In both versions - [[spoiler: social Services suspected this to be the case with Marie. Actually subverted - it was an abusive sister. Marie discovered the abuse just before she and Mimiko/Ellie died.]]

It was later followed by two sequels - ''One Missed Call 2'' and ''One Missed Call: Final'' - and an infamously terrible American remake with a rare 0% on RottenTomatoes. A ten-episode TV {{Spinoff}} series was made in 2005. Manga adaptations and a pachinko video game were also produced.

* ItWontTurnOff: Subverted in so far as characters do in fact manage to turn off their phones. [[spoiler: Double-subverted when the phones turn themselves back on when the cursed call comes, and then taken to an extreme level of subversion when a character gets rid of her phone only to get the call on someone else's phone the minute she takes it - and then extra-extremely subverted when her original phone shows up again from nowhere. And again when Yumi's phone, which was broken in half and tossed in a fish tank, shows up again perfectly fine at the climax!]]

'''''One Missed Call''''' (着信アリ) is a Japanese horror franchise that began with the Yasushi Akimoto novel ''Chakushin Ari'', written simultaneously with a film version which was Creator/TakashiMiike's romp into commercial horror. The story centers on Yumi, a college student whose friends begin to receive mysterious voicemails, announced by a creepy children's song. The only one who believes her friend's deaths aren't suicides (at first) is a young policeman named Yamashita, whose sister also received the Call of Death.

* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: [[spoiler: Sinyishi]] forwards his death message to one of the {{JapaneseDelinquents}} who killed [[spoiler: his friend Aikake]] by preventing him from reaching his phone.

* AssholeVictim: The male teacher from the third film. [[{{Jerkass}} He confiscated 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.]]

** Then there's some of the deaths featured in the third film, including: [[spoiler: strangled by electric cords, mutilated by laundry machine, literally ripping '''your heart''' out...]]

** Mimiko and Nanako only lived with their mother; a father figure is never mentioned. In the sequel, it's revealed [[spoiler: Mimiko's father was a lunatic who was killed by her grandfather.]] That still leaves the identity [[spoiler: Nanako]]'s father unanswered.

* 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 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 Taiwanese Hokkien.

One Missed Call (着信アリ) is a Japanese horror franchise that began with the Yasushi Akimoto novel ''Chakushin Ari'', written simultaneously with a film version which was Creator/TakashiMiike's romp into commercial horror. The story centers on Yumi, a college student whose friends begin to receive mysterious voicemails, announced by a creepy children's song. The only one who believes her friend's deaths aren't suicides (at first) is a young policeman named Yamashita, whose sister also received the Call of Death.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Naoto]] in the first sequel. [[spoiler: Just as his girlfriend Kyoko is about to be killed by Li Li, he managed to get to Kyoko's cell phone and answer it, so he will die instead of her.]]

** Debatable in the remake. As in the original, [[spoiler:Ellie still comes for Beth even after her scheduled death has passed, but she's apparently stopped by the spirit of her mother. But then the movie ends with Beth's phone ringing ominously...]]