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Phone

2002 · 103 min · Director: Byeong-ki Ahn, Ahn Byeong-ki ★ IMDb 6.1 · 5,529 ratings

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After writing a series of articles about pedophilia, the journalist Ji-won receives threatening calls on her cellular and she changes her number. Her close friend Ho-jung and her husband Chang-hoon invite Ji-won to move to their house in Bang Bae that is empty and closed. When the young daughter of her friends Young-Su answers a phone call in her mobile phone, the girl screams and changes her behavior, feeling a great attraction for her father and rejecting her mother. Meanwhile Ji-won receives weird phone calls and sees and listens to a teenager playing Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" on the piano. After investigating her phone number, Ji-won discovers that the original owner of the number, Jin-hee, had vanished and the two next owners of the number have mysteriously died in unusual circumstances. Her further investigation about Jin-hee discloses that the teenager was absolutely disturbed with her obsessive love for a man that had broken the relationship with her, and later she unravels dark and tragic secrets about the fate of Jin-hee.

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Phone (2002) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Fear 40%, Tension 25%, Anxiety 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

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The strongest emotional signals are Fear, Tension, Anxiety. Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Horror. AI estimate.

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Cast

KY
Kim Yu-mi

KY
Kim Yu-mi

Ho-jeong

WC
Woo-jae Choi

CW
Choi Woo-jae

Chang-hoon

CJ
Choi Ji-yeon

Jin-hee

ES
Eun Seo-woo

Yeong-ju

CJ
Choi Jung-yoon

Ja-yeong

JS
Jeong Seong-hwan

Jin-woo

LS
Lee Seo-yeon

Mi-ran

PM
Park Min-gwan

Detective Kim

KG
Kim Gyeong-ryong

Security Guard

OC
Oh Chang-kyung

Taxi Company Employee

JW
Jung Woon-sun

High School Student

CM
Cha Mi-jeong

High School Student

LJ
Lee Ji-yeon

Ho-won

HS
Hyun Sook-hee

Jin-hee's Mother

LJ
Lee Jin-hee

Student

CM
Cha Mi-jeong

Student

Details

Directed by
Byeong-ki Ahn, Ahn Byeong-ki
Written by
Byeong-ki Ahn, Yu-jin Lee, Ahn Byeong-ki
Type
Movies
Released
2002
Runtime
103 min
Country
South Korea
Ratings
★ IMDb 6.1 · 5,529 ratings
Feels mostly
Fear
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