Premonition (Yogen) 2004

While stopped at a roadside phone boot for transmitting his work through Internet to the university, Professor Satomi Hideki finds a scrap of newspaper with the picture of his five year old daughter, Nana, in the obituary. He sees his wife Ayaka trying to release their daughter from the seat-belt, when a truck loses control and hits his car, killing Nana. Three years later, Hideki is divorced from Ayaka, who is researching paranormal persons who claim to have read an evil newspaper anticipating the future. She finds that there are people cursed to foresee the future but without power to save the victims. When Hideki changes the future saving Ayaka, he becomes trapped in hell and he has to make a choice of his own destiny.

Director: Tsuruta Norio

Stars: Mikami Hiroshi, Sakai Noriko, Horikita Maki

JDramaMama's Rating: B-

This movie is not too high on the creep factor scale, IMO, because I didn't have to cover my eyes too many times. But, leave it to the Japanese to do horror because they do it better than anyone else. The movie has some VERY creepy moments in it (it's from the same people who made "Ringu" and "The Grudge", so there ya go!) The car crash was horrific and unexpected. After that, we watch the father's life spiral totally out of control with these random newspapers floating out of thin air prediciting more deaths. It's bloody, creepy and spine chilling. True Japanese horror.

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