Matsuoka is a teacher at a culinary school. One day, a student, Tashiro, says something strange during the lesson: “There’s a noise, it’s like a chime. Someone is sending me a message.” The people running the school warn him that Tashiro’s a little odd, but Matsuoka isn’t bothered by it at all and continues treating him normally. However, on another day, Tashiro says, “Half of my brain has been replaced with a machine,” and takes drastic action to prove it. Some days after the incident with Tashiro, Matsuoka is teaching a female student, Akemi. Matsuoka continues teaching unenthusiastically but when she complains that a whole chicken leaves her feeling uncomfortable, something incomprehensible overtakes him. Both at the school and at home, a strange dread begins to undulate in his ordinary existence… (Source: roadstead.io) Edit Translation
- English
- Español
- Português (Brasil)
- 한국어
- Native Title: Chime
- Also Known As: チャイム
- Screenwriter & Director: Kurosawa Kiyoshi
- Genres: Thriller
Cast & Credits
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![Yoshioka Mutsuo in Chime Japanese Movie (2024)]( "Yoshioka Mutsuo in Chime Japanese Movie (2024)")
Yoshioka MutsuoMatsuoka TakujiMain Role -
![Kohinata Seiichi in Chime Japanese Movie (2024)]( "Kohinata Seiichi in Chime Japanese Movie (2024)")
Kohinata SeiichiTashiro IchiroSupport Role -
![Amano Hana in Chime Japanese Movie (2024)]( "Amano Hana in Chime Japanese Movie (2024)")
Amano HanaHishida AkemiSupport Role -
![Tabata Tomoko in Chime Japanese Movie (2024)]( "Tabata Tomoko in Chime Japanese Movie (2024)")
Tabata TomokoMatsuoka HarukoSupport Role -
![Watanabe Ikkei in Chime Japanese Movie (2024)]( "Watanabe Ikkei in Chime Japanese Movie (2024)")
Watanabe IkkeiOtsuki MakotoSupport Role -
![Yasui Junpei in Chime Japanese Movie (2024)]( "Yasui Junpei in Chime Japanese Movie (2024)")
Yasui JunpeiSakumaSupport Role
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Reviews
Shocks as sharp as a knife
Keeping its secrets guarded and living off the shocks of its knife-edge turns, Chime sees Kiyoshi Kurosawa covering more than familiar ground with plenty of desolate moodscapes, recognisable for anyone with even a cursory knowledge of his past output. However, there is something particularly chilling about the oppressive mundanity here, a mundanity to which Kōichi Furuya's digital cinematography adds another layer of dread. It's a dreary madness that slowly begins seeping into the life of its character. Despite its skeletal form and brief runtime, the film ends on a fascinating rupture; the previously ambient evil becoming tangible shifts, terrifyingly, within the realm of possibility and the suggestion of this curse being made concrete becomes overbearing. Relishing in the awful psychological residues of violence while suggesting a lucid dream, the kind of fragmented nightmare you are grateful to wake up from but just as terrified to leave so unresolved.
