Phone
2002 · 103 min · Director: Byeong-ki Ahn, Ahn Byeong-ki
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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
- Fear40%
- Tension25%
- Anxiety20%
- Disturbing10%
- Surprise5%
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The strongest emotional signals are Fear, Tension, Anxiety. Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Horror. AI estimate.
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Cast
Ho-jeong
Chang-hoon
Jin-hee
Yeong-ju
Ja-yeong
Jin-woo
Mi-ran
Detective Kim
High School Student
High School Student
Ho-won
Jin-hee's Mother
Student
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
- Feels mostly
- Fear
- Data updated
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