Pulse (2001) aka Kairo aka 回路 (1080p BluRay x265 HEVC 10bit AAC 2.0) Kiyoshi Kurosawa Kumiko Asō Haruhiko Kato Koyuki Kurume Arisaka Masatoshi Matsuo Shinji Takeda Jun Fubuki Shun Sugata Kōji Yakusho Show Aikawa Kenji Mizuhashi thriller
- CategoryMovies
- TypeHEVC/x265
- LanguageJapanese
- Total size10.2 GB
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- Last checkedSep. 05th '22
- Date uploadedSep. 04th '22
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Pulse
After one of their friends commits suicide, strange things begin happening to a group of young Tokyo residents. One of them sees visions of his dead friend in the shadows on the wall, while another's computer keeps showing strange, ghostly images. Is their friend trying to contact them from beyond the grave, or is there something much more sinister going on?
Infohash : 7A745F96A6356F7E41C95B71943131A8431487A4
Pulse (2001) aka Kairo aka 回路, directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original Japanese theatrical stereo, and English subtitles.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286751/
Video encoded in two-pass 12.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image.
English subtitles OCRed, proofed and corrected.
Note : An undeservedly less-known J-horror here, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse is one of my personal favorites, a film that takes a simple premise and makes something philosophically horrifying out of it. The first part of this film, in particular, is definitely some of the most unsettling cinema I've ever seen, mixing surreal occurrences, existential ennui, a soundtrack that's filled with traditional Japanese instrumentation and plaintive vocals, and a general feeling of oppression that's so heavy it makes me a little uncomfortable to even write about it. It has its flaws, some of the techno-babble in the beginning, in particular, is quite meaningless and bizarre, even for a film from 2001, and the grungy, dark, and dirty-looking cinematography, while fitting the theme of loneliness and despair, is actually a bit hard to make out sometimes, but it's one hell of a horror movie, depressing, apocalyptic, and angsty as nothing else.
Kudo, a young woman, goes to the apartment of computer nerd friend Teguchi to retrieve a floppy disk, but the apartment seems empty at first, then he suddenly shows up, acts distant and detached, and quietly goes into another room and hangs himself. The friends examine the floppy disk, and find it contains an image of Taguchi staring at his own computer monitor. On another monitor, a ghostly face stares out into the room. When another friend returns to the apartment, the wall where Taguchi hung himself has a black, vaguely human-shaped stain. People start receiving distorted phone calls saying only "Help me", and encounter rooms sealed with red tape, containing ghosts. In the meantime, Ryosuke, a young man, installs a new internet service, but his computer only displays images of other people in darkened rooms, either motionless or repeating simple movements. His computer later turns on by itself and displays these images, along with the message "DO YOU WANT TO MEET A GHOST". A computer science grad student explains to Ryosuke his theory that the afterlife is full, and that the spirits of the dead are leaking into the real world through the internet. As more and more people start disappearing or committing sucide, Tokyo gradually becomes a deserted wasteland, and the few survivors have to avoid losing their will to live.
Once again, a Japanese BluRay with totally horrendous elevated black levels, and not a great transfer otherwise either. I adjusted black levels and applied a conservative denoise to get this somewhat presentable, taking care not to lose detail in the shadows of the very dark cinematography. The original stereo track sounds fine, at least. No commentary or anything, which is a shame.
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General : Matroska / 10.2 GiB / 1 h 58 min / 12.3 Mb/s
Video : HEVC / [email protected]@Main / 12.0 Mb/s / 1 920 x 1 080 pixels / 1.78:1 / 24.000 FPS / *Default
Writing library : x265 3.5+1-f0c1022b6:[Linux][GCC 10.2.0][64 bit] 10bit
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Audio #1 : AAC LC / 257 kb/s / 2 channels / Original Japanese theatrical stereo / Japanese / *Default
Text #1 : SRT / 19 b/s / English
Chapters :
00:00:00.000 : How It Began
00:08:38.935 : Toguchi's Disk
00:13:55.168 : Welcome to the Internet
00:22:01.195 : Help
00:29:05.244 : The Forbidden Room
00:34:26.273 : Ghost in the Machine
00:39:22.193 : What Did You See?
00:44:32.795 : How Many Ghosts?
00:53:44.346 : The Passage Is Open
01:02:16.316 : Ghosts and People
01:17:18.259 : Alone
01:29:42.377 : The Missing
01:35:28.723 : Eternal Loneliness
01:46:36.599 : Death Comes
01:55:21.289 : End Credits
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