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STOLEN IDENTITY

スマホを落としただけなのに

By Hideo NAKATA

TBS (TOKYO BROADCASTING SYSTEM TELEVISION, INC.) - as SALES All rights, World

Horror - Completed 2018

What if your friend drops their smartphone?
And what if a serial killer finds it?
And… what if you become the serial killer’s target?

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Horror, Thriller, Book adaptation
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Duration
- 116 mn
- Director(s)
- Hideo NAKATA
- Writer(s)
- Tetsuya OISHI
- Cast
- Keiko KITAGAWA, Yudai CHIBA, Ryo NARITA
- Synopsis
- INTRODUCTION
  Mystery novel Sumaho wo Otoshita Dakenanoni (“He Just Dropped His Smartphone”) published in April 2017 was immediately and enthusiastically acclaimed by readers of many age groups. In the story, the man who finds the smartphone is a cold-blooded serial killer and a “cracker,” a hacker with malicious intent. Asami, the main character, becomes the target of this serial killer, who hunts women with long black hair. By manipulating SNS activity and impersonating other users, the serial killer steals personal information about Asami and the people around her and backs her into a corner. Asami finds her life in danger. Just because her boyfriend dropped his smartphone…
  This novel about a horrifying experience that could happen to anybody in this day and age when smartphones are a must-have item struck a chord with many readers.
  
  The movie is directed by Hideo Nakata, who has fans around the world from the Ring series. The undisputed master of horror depicts a story about “trusting people” and “true love” in the wake of a “horror lurking in the shadows of modern society.”
  
  STORY
  One day, office employee Asami calls her boyfriend and hears an unfamiliar male voice on the other end. The man informs her that he found the lost smartphone and makes arrangements to return it to Asami. It safely reaches her, and she gives it back to her boyfriend. But she has no idea that the man has hacked the smartphone and stolen all its data. The man, a serial killer who targets women with long black hair, has seen Asami’s photo on the smartphone and has immediately become infatuated with her.
  
  The serial killer locates Asami’s and her boyfriend’s homes from the smartphone’s location finder. He impersonates their friends on SNS to obtain personal information. He sets up one devious trap after another to create a rift between Asami and her boyfriend and to isolate her. Through his hacking activity, the serial killer also discovers her secret. What will happen to Asami whose life is threatened by a serial killer who also knows her secret that she’s desperate to keep under wraps…?