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Forbidden Siren (サイレン FORBIDDEN SIREN, also known as Sairen) is a movie adaptation of the videogame series Siren. It was released in Japan on February 9, 2006 to coincide with the Japanese release of the sequel game, Forbidden Siren 2, on which the movie is loosely based.

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Japanese cover

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Chinese cover

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Korean cover

Forbidden Siren was directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi and stars a host of actors such as Yui Ichikawa, Leo Morimoto, Naoki Tanaka, Hiroshi Abe, Naomi Nishida, Suzuki Matsuo, Kyūsaku Shimada, Mai Takahashi, and Jun Nishiyama.

Characters[]

Main characters[]

Yuki Amamoto (天本由貴) = Mr. Amamoto's daughter, goes with his family to Yami Island, has a pet dog called Osnan. Played by Yui Ichikawa (市川由衣)

Hideo Amamoto ( 天本英夫) = Mr. Amamoto's younger son, suffers some kind of illness. Played by Jun Nishiyama (西山潤)

Shin Amamoto (天本真) = Freelance reporter and writer, his company sends him and his family to Yami Island; played by Harauki (Leo) Morimoto (森本治行 / )

Yutaka Minamida (南田豊) = Doctor, receives the Amamoto family when they arrive to the island; played by Naoki Tanaka (田中 直樹)

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Yuki Amamoto

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Hideo Amamoto

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Yutaka Minamida

Other Characters[]

Tsuchida Kei (土田圭) = Islander and only survivor of the island in 1976, he commited suicide shortly after being found, played by Hiroshi Abe (阿部寛)

Satomi (里美) = The Amamoto's neighbour, helps them with the cleaning once they arrive. Played by Naomi Nishida (西田尚美)

Azuma (東) = Played by Suzuki Matsuo

Officer Yamanaka (山中巡査) = Helps doctor Minamida and Yuki search for mr. Amamoto but to no avail. Played by Kyūsaku Shimada (嶋田久作)

Mysterious girl in red ( 謎の赤い服の少女) = Seems to tell Hideo a story about the island, then she appears in Yuki's visions. Played by Mai Takahashi (岩井堂聖子), who is also the actor behind Yuri Kishida, Kanae and Ryuuko Tagawa in Forbidden Siren 2.

Story[]

The film begins by noting the sudden disappearances of people that occurred in the Lost Colony in Roanoke, Virginia in 1590 and the ship, the Mary Celeste, in 1872. The film starts in 1976, the inhabitants of a solitary island of Yamajima seem to have disappeared but searchers find one person who gives a mysterious warning: “When you hear the siren, never go out”.

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Searchers look for the dissapeared inhabitants in 1976

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The searchers find a person and interrogate him about the islands inhabitants whereabouts

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The islander warns the searchers moments before the siren sounds

30 years later, in 2006, Yuki Amamoto goes to the island with her father, a freelance reporter, and her little brother, Hideo, who appears to be mute. Though they are welcomed by a young doctor, Minamida, who shows them the island, all the islanders look creepy and unfriendly to Yuki. The house they live in has long been deserted, full of dust and old blood stains. Her neighbour, staying next door, helps her clean the house and gives her the same strange warning: “When you hear the siren, never go out”.

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Yuki, Hideo and Mr. Amamoto in the boat

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The islandiers staring at Yuki

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Yuki notices blood stains in the house

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The Amamoto's neighbour warns Yuki not to go out at night

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Yuki talks with doctor Minamida about Hideo

The next moring, Yuki goes to see doctor Minamida to ask him about Hideo's condition and if he is going to recover, he tells her it takes time, after all they're not in Tokyo anymore.

It is the beginning of a series of mysterious incidents, After that, Hideo runs off again and as Yuki explores the island looking for him: First she finds the town deserted and eventually gets into an abandoned hut with mysterious scibbles on the walls, there she finds a diary from 1976, the diary is that of the sole survivor of the 1976 disappearance of the villagers, containing the truth behind the incident,

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Yuki wanders through the now deserted village looking for Hideo

The diary seems to describe how the villagers were murdered and how the murders took place, but the diary is missing pages as it appears to have been torn in half. While she is reading it a man assaults Yuki warning her to not go out at night while the siren sounds.

She escapes his assaulter and finds Hideo with a mysterious woman in a red dress that seems to be telling him a story, They make their way to the town center, they peep inside and find all the villagers performing some kind of religious ceremony, dancing and singing a strange song.

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Yuki enters the house the fisherman was found 30 years ago

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Yuki finds the fisherman's diary

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An unknown villager assaults Yuki within the fisherman's house

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Yuki encounters Hideo along with a misterious girl in red

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Yuki finds the villagers performing a ceremony in the city hall

During the night, she watches over Hideo who is playing scrabble while singing a strange song, her father tells Yuki that he is going out to take pictures of the nocturnal animals, Yuki then sees someone staring at her thouh the window and the lights go off, then someone calls her but she doesn't understand the message; shortly after that the siren sounds for the first time and she goes out looking for Hideo. She finds him outside pointing to the metal tower where the siren is coming from.

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Yuki irons while Hideo plays scrabble and sings

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Mr. Amamoto tells Yuki that he is going out to take some pictures during the night

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Someone stares at Yuki through the window, moments before the lights go off

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Yuki goes off while the siren sounds and sees her neighbour looking at her

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Yuki finds Hideo pointing at the metal towers

The next morning, Yuki and the doctor go looking for her father who has not yet returned. It is here that Yuki tells the doctor that the people of the village might not be trustworthy. However, Yuki then finds herself lost. She decides to explore the island more but runs across many odd occurrences. Eventually the doctor catches up with her and from the things Yuki has seen, she and the doctor summon a police officer to help them as Yuki believes her father is dead.

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Yuki and doctor Minamida looking for Mr. Amamoto in the forest the next morning

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Dr. Minamida vanishes after some bats attack Yuki.

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Yuki enters the town hall and finds a mysterious idol with some messages

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Yuki finds his father unconscious in a chair, on the basement within the town hall

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Doctor Minamida rencounters Yuki

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Minamida and Yuki return to the town center with a police officer looking for Mr. Amamoto, they find nothing.

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Yuki's father once back home

Nothing is found, but when she returns to her house, her father is there although something is very wrong with him as he seems cold-blooded and behaves like a different man. She also starts to dream about Hideo being seriously wounded.

Curious to know what happened to him, Yuki finds her father’s video camera from the night the siren went off to see if there is anything on it. Nothing appears out of the ordinary with the exception of her father falling and slightly injuring himself.

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Yuki encpunters his father and hugs him

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Yuki taking care of his father

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Yuki has a dream about Hideo being seriously injured

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Yuki swearing to protect Hideo after her nightmare

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Yuki looking for her dog and finding her father staring through the window

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Yuki finds her father's videocamera

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Yuki shows doctor Minamida her father's recordings

She discusses the island and the siren with the doctor again but returns home. She decides to find out more information on the internet. She reads about the Roanoke colony and the Mary Celeste. At the same time, the doctor begins to do some research on what Yuki has told her and, we see Hideo is being told a story by the woman in red again.

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Yuki tells doctor Minamida that her father was attacked

The story appears to be about victims of a terrible disease were once isolated on Yamajima. The story goes that the flesh of a mermaid could bring ever-lasting life, a cure to the disease. They reportedly captured a mermaid and ate it. But before the mermaid died, it let out a terrible scream and cursed the island. Yuki sees old video footage from 1976 that was filmed by the rescue party who found the one survivor. After seeing this the website shows a picture of the woman in red.

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Yuki searches reads information about the island in her father's computer

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Doctor Minamida finds information about the sole survivor of the island in 1976 after reviewing the video Yuki showed him

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Yuki finds information about a siren that was eaten that supposedly granted inmortality

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Hideo with the woman in red, being told about the dissaster that happened to Yami island

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Yuki finds a video of the sole survivor of the island in 1976

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Yuki finds a portrait of the mysterious girl in red she found with Hideo the day before

Yuki rushes out to find Hideo and finds him sitting with the woman in red. Yuki tells Hideo to come to her and he does, just as the siren begins to wail again. She takes Hideo to an old house where a man is living and who had also previously warned Yuki of the siren. While there, Shibito begin attacking and attack the man tries to fight them off but is killed. This gives time for Yuki and Hideo to head back to their house.

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Yuki rushes out to find Hideo

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Yuki finds Hideo and the girl in red, then the Siren starts to sound and Hideo falls unconscious while the girl in red leaves

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Yuki takes Hideo to a safe place

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The man who assaulted Yuki the day before appears warning Yuki about the siren

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Yuki see the shibito trying to get into the hut

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The man tells Yuki to stop the siren before sacrificing himself helping Yuki escape

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Yuki tells Hideo that they will get into a boat and leave the island

There, Yuki declares that she and Hideo will leave the island in the morning. While looking for things to take with them, Yuki finds a hidden room in their house. In the hidden room, there are pictures of people from 1976. Including a picture of the doctor who looks exactly the same as he did in 1976.

Just as she discovers this, the siren begins wailing again and the power in the house goes out. That’s when Yuki sees that her father is now a Shibito. He tries to kill them but Yuki and Hideo are able to escape.

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Yuki finds her dogs cllar covered in blood and realizing that her father probably killed it

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Yuki finds a secret room within the house with pictures of the islands inhabitants of 1976

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Yuki finds a picture of doctor Minamida from 1976

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The siren starts to sound and Yuki rushes for Hideo

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Mr. Amamoto, now a shibito attacks Yuki and Hideo with a shovel forcing them to escape

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Mr. Amamoto faces Yuki

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Yuki trying to phone for help but to no avail

Outside, they try to find help, but discover that every person on the island is now a shibito. While trying to escape, Hideo points out the metal tower with the siren on it.

Yuki and Hideo head that way and begin to climb to the top. On the way up, they are being followed by Shibito with many more coming to the metal tower.

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Officer Yamanaka as a shibito, pointing his gun towards Yuki and Hideo

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Yuki's neighbor as a shibito, chasing her

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Yuki and Hideo in front of the metal tower about to climb it

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Yuki ties Hideo behind her and starts climbing the tower

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The man who saved her before from the shibito now grabs her from the leg while climbing, but her pushes him down shortly after

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Yuki on top of the tower, sees te sea become red

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The shibito gathering under the tower

Yuki finally makes it to the top and begins to destroy the siren. After doing so, Yuki realizes she can still hear the siren.

By then the doctor has climbed to the top of the tower, yelling to Yuki that there is no siren. It’s all in her mind. And that Hideo died a long time ago. We then flash back to several scenes in the movie, seeing Yuki going through the same motions as before but Hideo is not there, explaining why people were looking at her oddly. We then flash back to a scene of her father and Yuki in an ambulance, with paramedics trying to revive Hideo but to no avail. Realizing that there is nothing left for her, Yuki lets herself fall off the metal tower.

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Yuki grabs a metal pipe and astarts smashing the siren

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Doctor Minamida tells Yuki that the siren is in her head

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Doctor Minamida telling Yuki that Hideo died a long time ago

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We then flash back to several scenes in the movie, seeing Yuki going through the same motions as before but without Hideo being there, explaining why the people were looking at her oddly.

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Yuki being the only one who sees Hideo

She then has flashbacks of her father and Hideo in an ambulance, with paramedics trying to revive Hideo but to no avail.

After that she then tryes to get away from doctor Minamida, throwing in the process the bag she carried with her, full of pictures of Hideo, then she starts seeing doctor Minamida as a Shibito. Realizing that there is nothing left for her, Yuki lets herself fall off the metal tower.

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Flashback of Yuki and her father in an ambulance with Hideo shortly before his death

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Doctor Minamida trying to make Yuki remember

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Yuki throws off the tower the bag she was carrying around with pictures of Hideo

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Doctor Minamida trying to convince Yuki to come down with him

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Yuki sees doctor Minamida as a shibito

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Yuki throws herself off the tower

We then see she survived the fall with the doctor and her father talking about Yuki and her recovery. While watching over her, the doctor notices Yuki still has the half of the torn diary in her pocket. He takes it from her and puts it together with the other half of the diary he had from the files of the massacre in 1976. Reading it, he sees that the person who wrote it states that when the siren sounded the fourth time, he must kill them all.

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Yuki in the hospital

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Doctor Minamida explains mr. Amamoto what happened in 1976, with the pictures of the moment now showing the true persons of the moment

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Doctor Minamida finds the diary from 1976 in Yuki's pockets and starts reading it

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Yuki awakening

We then see Yuki awaken to the sound of the siren. She appears behind the doctor with a scalpel and attacks.

We then see the woman in red singing about hell’s gate opening as the movie ends with the sky turning black and the sea turning red.

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The woman in red singing about hell's doors opening

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Yuki with an scalpel behind doctor Minamida about to stab him

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The sea becomes red as the siren sounds

Miscelany[]

References from Forbidden Siren[]

An insect attacks Yuki twice, one time soon after they arrive to their house while cleaning it, and the second while escaping the house she lives in during the second night. The insect is possibly a reference to Datatsushi.

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Yuki encounters an insect shortly after arriving her new home

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Yuki encounters the insect while escaping the house she lives in

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Datatsushi in Forbidden Siren

Yuki finds Riko Azuma's album while looking for Hideo, an archive item from Forbidden Siren 2.

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Riko Azuma's album in the Siren Movie

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Item 41; Riko Azuma's album

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Yuki finds a painting that says Dog Live

After Yuki enters the house the fisherman was found 30 years ago, she finds a painting saying "Dog Live", the same message appears repeatedly during the film as part of a cryptic message, a possible reference to Tsukasa's fate at the end of Siren 2.

Data sheet[1][]

  • Realiation: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
  • Writer: Naoya Takayama
  • Production :
    • Excutive Producer: Kei Haruna
    • Music: Gary Ashida and Kuniaki Haishima
    • Music department: Kyôko Kitahara
    • Cinematography: Satoru Karasawa
    • Film editing: Nobuyuki Ito
    • Visual effects: Kôji Nozaki
  • Production company: Asahi Broadcasting
  • Distribution company:
    • 2006 : Shaw Organisation (Singapore)
    • 2006 : Toho Company (Japon)
  • Other companies
    • Continental Far East (Dolby consultant)
    • Tokyo Laboratory Co. Ltd. (film processing)
  • Country:  Japan
  • Language : Japanese
  • Aspect ratio Format : 1,85 : 1 - colour
  • Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
  • Genres: Horror  Thriller
  • Release date: 11 Feb 2006 (Japan)

References[]

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