Japan Synopsis
回路
“Do you want to meet a ghost?”
In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lurks some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.
Audience Engagement
416 audience reviews — more than 92% of Japan films in our index.
Review volume (92th percentile) outruns trending popularity (70th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Pulse. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Daiei Film
Horror + Thriller in Japan
90 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Horror and Thriller genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Pulse itself).
The 2000–2002 Japan Window
Pulse holds position #143 of 226 Japan films in the 2000–2002 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2000s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in Japan, 1020 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Pulse premiered alongside 79 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 1h 59m runtime, production spent $210K per minute on screen and earned $3K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 79 other Japan films in 2001.
The 1324th 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 Pulse, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- college student · 5
- alienation · 3
- atmospheric · 3
- remade · 3
- apartment · 3
- allegorical · 2
- computer class · 2
- urban decay · 1
- personal computer · 1
- relevance · 1
- flashback · 28
- loneliness · 17
- afterlife · 13
- missing person · 13
- depression · 11
- co-workers relationship · 9
- isolation · 6
- internet · 6
- japan · 454
- ghost · 84
- tokyo · 78
- suicide · 51
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #3,073 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (33rd percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.4 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Horror productions specifically: #108 of 391 (top 28%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Daiei Film, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Hakuhodo, IMAGICA |
| Runtime | 1h 59m |
| Release Date | February 3, 2001 |
| IMDb | tt0286751 |