Premonition (Yogen) - 2004 Japanese Horror Movie
Premonition Tagline
It's dangerous to know...
Premonition Synopsis
Based on the cult comic book Newspaper of Terror, Premonition sees director Norio Tsuruta (Ring 0) weave a chilling tale of a man who can foresee the future. Hiroshi Mikami plays Hideki, a father trying to prevent the death of his young daughter. When Hideki picks up a newspaper he knows what he will see... death. Foretelling ill-omened fate of everything from slayings to train crashes, there is nothing Hideki can do to stop the event... or is there? When the paper predicts the demise of his daughter in a car crash, Hideki seeks out others like himself, searching for ways to change the future.
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Premonition Movie Review
Premonition is a supernatural Japanese horror from the creators of The Ring, The Grudge and Dark Water (although a more accurate tagline would be “directed by the same bloke that directed Ring 0”). The movie is a spooky tale based on the cult comic Newspaper of Terror.
The story starts when a work obsessed Japanese businessman, Professor Hideki Satomi, on a car journey with his wife and daughter, asks his wife to pull over so that he can use a payphone to send an email. Whilst he is in the phone booth he finds a scrap of newspaper with a story of a tragic road accident involving a small girl, which happened in the exact spot where his car is parked... in a few minutes time!!! Before he can work out what is going on a lorry ploughs into his car killing his daughter.
Three years later, after the breakdown of his marriage, he is still haunted by scraps of newspaper predicting the future, all of which come true. By this time his wife is some sort of paranormal investigator and seeing similar cases she decides to get back in contact with her ex-husband to explain that maybe she was a bit quick to dismiss his newspaper stories as the ravings of a madman. Together they continue to investigate the mysterious newspaper predictions and soon discover the home-movie archive of a man that tried to change the future using the news stories.
Hideki changes the future when he reads of a train crash which kills his ex-wife, he saves her but soon realises the consequences of interfering with the newspaper's predictions.
Premonition is a splendid J-Horror story and although a bit holey in places it manages to keep you on the edge of your seat, low on gore and shocks but definitely a tension filled, overall scary movie typical of many other J-Horror movies.
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