Horror Icon 'Ghost Train' may not be too scary, but still maintains the feel of a good J-Horror movie. Set mainly in the Tokyo subways, Ghost Train surrounds the mystery of a lost train ticket dropped by a woman named Yaeko Aonuma. When Nana Kimura's younger sister finds the ticket and disappears in the subway, she begins learning more about Yaeko Aonuma and searches for conductors and train engineers who may have knowledge of this spirit. 'Ghost Train' is actually very engaging and fun to watch. The CGI may have been awful towards the end of the movie, but before then, it's not really noticeable. Many similarities to 'Ringu' or 'The Ring', so if you like those, it's probably worth watching. Special mention to Erika Sawajiri, who did a surprisingly good portrayal of Nana Kimura (protagonist)

fedor8 Yet another Japanese horror flick about a LONG-HAIRED FEMALE GHOST slaughtering people. Once the Japanese get stuck on a shtick, they never ever let go, do they. It's a shame, because there are talented directors in the Land of The Rising Long-Haired Female Ghosts, but the scripts tend to be nearly always clones of one another. After all, the Japanese aren't known for originality.You gotta love the Japanese though. A girl has just inadvertently killed her own boyfriend (who had attacked her, because possessed by a ghost), and what do her parents do upon picking her up from the police station? They berate her for not taking her school seriously enough. You'd never see this in a Western movie, which is just one of the many reasons why Japanese films are so weird.A bracelet won't come off – AND your wrist is turning purple and blue underneath it? Ever thought about going to an emergency room? Whether this is a dumb aspect of a badly written film or perhaps something closely related to Japanese culture, I simply don't know. Perhaps it would have been "shameful" for the teeny-bopper to have gone to a doctor "just" for a stuck bracelet and a hand that looks as if it's in advanced stages of gangrene. After all, what's amputation compared to the loss of "face"? What's a little limb-loss compared to being shunned? Meanwhile, the train-station guard is busy covering up all his knowledge about the ghost – just so he can have his crappy job back. It's not as if though he is trying to get back a job as a CEO or something, but as a train-driver, so his stubbornness and unwillingness to help the girls solve the mystery of a fast-climbing number of disappearances (including kids, no less) hits a distinct "duh" note for me. Again, perhaps this is just a Japanese thing: career and social status take precedence over human life, I just don't know.Eventually, the former train-driver not only joins the effort to solve the mystery, but actually blows up the entrance to Hell (or whatever it is), thinking that this way he'd solved the problem. But did he? Once that station is cleared up of all the rubble (and knowing Japanese expediency, it wouldn't take long) there is no reason why construction workers won't be finding that demonic "entrance" again. Which brings us to the possibility of a sequel. Is there one? I'm not interested.The BFF sub-plot about the blossoming – and very sudden – friendship between the female protagonist (an awful actress, BTW) and the bracelet-hating teenie-bopper is utterly stupid and completely out-of-place, and comes off as an intrusion perpetrated by a neighbouring teen-drama movie-set.

vghb95a I like this movie, it has great beginning and ending but the middle part makes me give this movie five stars instead of more. This movie should be re-titled "Ghost Station", or "Ghost Tunnel" as much of the story doesn't takes place on a train.The movie centered around a high school girl called Nana whose kid sister found a lost train pass at the train station. She then disappeared the following day. The story goes, Nana's sister is not the only person who happens to vanished into thin air around that station. Many people who come across lost items on the train or at the station seem to be cursed by a woman dressed in black. It's been a bad week for our heroine Nana, not only has her sister gone missing, but her mother is in hospital for heart condition as well. As she search for her sister, she meets a guy who works as a train conductor. He too, sees strange happenings in the darken tunnel of the subway. With his help, they are able to find out something much more darker and eviler within the tunnel.As I watch this movie all sorts of questions popped up in my mind, such as, why are the locations of inter-cutting scenes don't match?, Why is a teenage melodrama doing in a horror movie?, And how can a woman without depth perception able to drive a car? This movie has a check list of things that needed to be in a J-horror movie, for example, ghost children, checked, evil ghost woman, checked, evil curse, checked, high school girl, checked, sound cue from Ringu, checked, unexplained ending, checked, and last but not least, zombie ghost, checked. As I said before, I do like this movie at the beginning for its creepy atmosphere and locations, and the story about a ghost haunting a subway tunnel although not new but still very interesting. I also like this movie for its zombie ghost stampede at the end of the movie. Still, due to editing and/or directing, the pacing of the film at time goes from slow to a dead stop. Lighting could be better also, as in the abandon tunnel scenes, the tunnels were too well lit to have any creepy atmosphere. This movie is good, but not very well thought-out.

spectral_realmv1 When i first saw the movie poster for this movie, i expected it to be an extremely generic J-horror film like what most of us have been watching for the past years. I entered the theater not really expecting much plot-wise but more eye candy instead.The movie started like most J-horrors that roughly tell you the back-story to the film. It was only slightly scary and the "jump" points in this film were few and far between.Basically, the premise of this film is about a haunted train tunnel and how a girl's brother went missing due to it. The story progresses with the girl acquiring new acquaintances and setting out to solve the mystery of the ghostly sightings.This is a very generic and expected film so i would say, skip it or get it on home video instead for one of those stay-in days.