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Pulse (Japanese: Kairo) is a 2001 J-Horror film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. The film was based on the novel Kairo.

The plot centers on ghosts invading the world of the living via the Internet. The film is a philosophical exploration into the alienation and loneliness of modern existence thanks to technology and more specifically, the Internet. Communication breakdown and isolation is the main theme of the film.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa attempted to criticize Japanese culture's susceptibility to faddism as well as technology's negative impact on Japanese people. Kurosawa suggested that technology distanced and disconnected people emotionally instead of uniting them. Kurosawa also attempted to deter people from suicide by creating an unsettling atmosphere which viewed death as a very lonely and depressing end, and depicted suicide as an empty, perilous act. This was done in direct relation to the Japanese phenomena, Hikikomori (extreme social withdrawal), and to the number of copycat suicides and suicide pacts which are formed within Japan.

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