Yukio finds herself caught up in one of those mother-daughter relationships that just never seems to work out well in the end and ends up sending Mama-san to The Other Side. While she may've found living with her mother nigh intolerable, living with her CORPSE doesn't seem to bother her overmuch- in the beginning; but, when Mother starts once again to haunt her every waking moment, Yukio begins to crack under the pressure and finally does a nosedive off of her 13th-floor balcony. Sayaka moves in; jumps; sister Mariko moves in, is haunted by the malevolent Mama-san, and finds and reads a book about Yukio and her mother. The measured pacing is never a problem (at least, not for those of us whose attention span hasn't been hardwired by a lifetime spent watching start-and-stop Commercial Television) and the twist that Mariko is spared because she still lives with her mom is vintage Asain Horror plotting.

I'm not too sure what to say about Apartment 1303... being nothing more than a Horror freak (and not a film critic or even a cinema student) I often find myself in lack of words to describe films I didn't enjoy yet didn't really dislike.I must be honest and say I was pretty disappointed, as I'm a huge fan of Asian Horror and in particular their ghost stories, The Grudge and The Ring are masterpieces of the Ghost Story sub-genre and I always find myself comparing other films to them... as for this one - I could overlook the non-original story/screenplay and focus on the good acting and fitting cinematography, had it not been for the ordinary and non frightening ghost... I mean, Asian Horror is famous for its terrifying ghosts, what happened here??What can I say... all in all I didn't really enjoy this film, and kept looking forward to something that would happen and make it worthwhile... it didn't. I can't say it was plain bad or anything, but I can't say it was good. As this is only my humble opinion, you might disagree with me and enjoy it, so I'd recommend it to fans of Ghost Stories and Asian Horror films, but only out of an attempt to maintain objectivity. Had a friend asked, I'd say they could easily bypass this film for other, better ones.

I kind of knew that there was something going on upon seeing the title. What really made me want to watch it was Eriko Hatsune (I first saw her in Uzumaki,another movie that's not quite convincing either). There are a lot of dead ends in the story. I saw a lot of irrelevant elements exposed to the plot, wasting the time that should have been used to make the story a lot clearer. They all had the same cause of deaths. But showed different symptoms before they died (eating dog food, etc., then getting pulled by hair that made me go "WTF?!"). I mean what's the hair got to do with everything? And why, if I may ask, was the sister the only one the ghost was chasing after when there were more people that's gone into the room? I dunno, they're kinda going after some story and then inserting another that's of no relevance (Ex: "Mom pushed me!") And I didn't get the bipolarity of Yukiyo (Melodramatic to psychotic; I mean c'mon!). It's not that I think that it had to have a good ending (I kinda expected that Mariko gets pushed off anyway, maybe by the mother), but the mom-daughter background story was not developed enough to support the ghost's "grudge". Let's just say that the film could've used more development for the story of the mother and daughter's relationship, and should have not used the time to film some legend that had nothing to do with the plot, so it's only 6/10 from me.

This is another ghost story from Japan. Mariko investigates about the suicide of her sister who lived in this Apartment 1303... and do you want to know all the rest? Everything in this movie is obvious and after 5 minutes from the begin, we easily know what it will happen in the rest of the movie. It doesn't scare too much, maybe because i begin to be tired of these ghost Japanese children... Innovation is finished some years ago and there is nothing much to save about this plot: maybe just the last minutes of the movie give some "scare" . At least, the actors are decent. My vote is 4 and as you can guess, I don't recommend it.