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Released
2001 · FILM

Pulse

When a reclusive college student and a plant‑shop worker discover that a mysterious online virus is letting vengeful spirits into the real world, they must race to shut down the digital gateway before Tokyo’s population disappears forever.

Do you want to meet a ghost?

Directed by
Runtime
119 min
Language
JA
HorrorMysterySci-Fi

Synopsis

In the vast city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife draws some of its residents, who are desperately seeking to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Jun Ichi KikuchiShot by Jun Ichiro HayashiScored by Takefumi HaketaDesigned by Tomoyuki Maruo

Box Office

2001 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.0× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$318K

Budget$25.0M
Worldwide gross$318K
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Kairode
  • Pulsede
  • Pulseen
  • Kairoes
  • Kaïrofr
  • Kairoit

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