Japan Synopsis
“What will it sound like when you die?”
Several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves — messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.
Audience Engagement
702 audience reviews — more than 95% of Japan films in our index.
Review volume (95th percentile) outruns trending popularity (65th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with One Missed Call. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Horror + Mystery in Japan
60 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Horror and Mystery genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding One Missed Call itself).
The 2007–2009 Japan Window
In the crowded 2007-2009 Japan release window, One Missed Call sits at #331 of 362. The leaderboard below contextualises its neighbours.
The 2000s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in Japan, 1020 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when One Missed Call premiered alongside 124 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 1h 27m runtime, production spent $230K per minute on screen and earned $527K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 124 other Japan films in 2008.
The 2025th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on One Missed Call, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- candy · 2
- victim · 2
- answering machine · 1
- delusion · 1
- sms · 1
- asthma · 1
- cowardliness · 1
- dying and death · 10
- friendship · 134
- police · 105
- remake · 101
- train · 35
- loss of loved one · 32
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #4,273 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (7th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -1.5 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Horror productions specifically: #279 of 391 (top 71%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Production Companies | Intermedia Films, Alcon Entertainment, KADOKAWA, Equity Pictures Medienfonds GmbH & Co. KG IV, Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Runtime | 1h 27m |
| Release Date | January 4, 2008 |
| IMDb | tt0479968 |
| Official Site | onemissedcallmovie.warnerbros.com |