'Ghost Train' may not be too scary, but still maintains the feel of a good J-Horror movie. Set mainly in the Tokyo subways, Ghost Train surrounds the mystery of a lost train ticket dropped by a woman named Yaeko Aonuma. When Nana Kimura's younger sister finds the ticket and disappears in the subway, she begins learning more about Yaeko Aonuma and searches for conductors and train engineers who may have knowledge of this spirit. 'Ghost Train' is actually very engaging and fun to watch. The CGI may have been awful towards the end of the movie, but before then, it's not really noticeable. Many similarities to 'Ringu' or 'The Ring', so if you like those, it's probably worth watching. Special mention to Erika Sawajiri, who did a surprisingly good portrayal of Nana Kimura (protagonist)

"I want what's mine." A little boy named Takashi picks up a train pass off of the sidewalk and is told by a creepy specter that he will die for doing so. On board a train(all alone which is a no-no), Takashi is carried away from inside the train when it stops temporarily(due to a woman standing on the tracks)setting up the story for GHOST TRAIN. A rookie subway train conductor, Shunichi(Shun Oguri), continues to see the mangled body of a woman, yet when he tells his boss he's considered a little "off in the head" and reduced to working in the station house until he gets his head on straight. Nana(Erika Sawajiri) is the big sister to one of Takashi's classmates, Noriko. Noriko finds the pass and winds up missing. Nana and Noriko's mom has a serious heart problem. Shigeru finds a bracelet while he and some students are riding the subway home and gives it to Kanae(Chinatsu Wakatsuki) as a token of their potential relationship. This bracelet seals the fate of those who touched it like the train pass. Mizunashi tunnel is the place which seems to have been the setting for the fate of the ghost showing up to "kidnap" victims who turn up on "missing persons" boards due to the fact that they were last seen near the subway station. Through all this a friendship develops between Nana and Kanae. A young woman named Yaeko, whose name is on the train pass returned to lost and found over and over, could be responsible. Kawamura also works in the station house, and may know more than he lets on about Yaeko. Kanae narrowly escapes certain death thanks to Kumi(Aya Sugimoto),a woman who lost her son(and eye)to Yaeko. While Nana pursues the mystery in regards to Yaeko, and attempt to find her sister, she'll make another startling revelation within the tunnel, a secret buried deep. The ending is sentimental and saccharine as the power of love and friendship are embellished as Nana faces all sorts of peril and will need the help of others if she is to escape with Takashi intact trying to evade a whole mass of ghouls crawling all throughout the cavernous walls towards them. Shunichi will assist Nana in operating the train as the trio must avoid the ghouls as they descend upon them. What separates this from the formula Onyro films is that the final result strays away from the usual "appeasing the ghost by reconnecting her to whatever has kept her spirit restless all this time since death" because something even more sinister lies inside the walls of the tunnels. A heavy dependence on CGI is quite visible throughout, but Yaeko is quite a creepy presence, particularly in one scene where her reflection appears following Noriko on a window, recorded from a camera in the subway.

This is a relatively nice movie for me. This movie deals a lot with friendship among two people, and really does remind me of One Missed Call Final. This movie is original. The entertaining scenes takes place in a train station. The opening scene in this movie is scary. I like the plot used in this movie. I like the cave like setting of this movie. I don't know why this movie is rated so low. The cave like setting for this movie and the use of the train station in this movie is very original. I love the ending in this movie. This movie is a little touching as well. However, there are flaws in this movie. The acting in this movie is a little poor. The GCI effects were very poor except for the last ten minutes. The whole movie was not scary at all. There were only two scenes that were scary. Tension and fear was not built very well in this movie. This movie becomes very melodramatic at times, and its pacing becomes just as slow as a snail,especially the scene where the girl calls her friend using the hand phone. This movie is one of the least scariest Japanese horror movies, but not the worst definitely. This movie shows that a good movie need not be scary. This movie is really entertaining and has some very interesting ideas, like the use of the bracelet being stuck to one of the girl's hand. The train station scene in this movie is nowhere as creepy or spooky as The Red Shoes. This movie is entertaining, though not as great as some of the other J-horrors such as Ringu, Ju-on or One Missed Call.

I don't generally like horror movies, I absolutely hate slasher stuff and the real gory horror movies too. But I occasionally do enjoy a good Japanese horror movie because most are long on suspense and pretty low on gore. The Ring and Ju-on being prime examples. I gave this one a try because two of my favorite stars are in it Oguri Shun and Sawajiri Erika, they were good but the movie in general is nothing special. One really cool thing about it though is that it used some of HP Lovecraft Cthulhu Mythos, a carved relief in a subway tunnel and Erika's character is looking to goto school abroad at the Miskatonic University.