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Director:
Writers:
Noboru Takagi (screenplay) &
Norio Tsuruta (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
2 October 2004 (Japan) more
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Tagline:
If you see it... you will die!
Plot:
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User Comments:
A Final Destination-style tale with a J-Horror twist. more (38 total)

Cast

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Hiroshi Mikami ... Hideki Satomi
Noriko Sakai ... Ayaka Satomi
Maki Horikita ... Sayuri Wakakubo
Mayumi Ono ... Misato Miyamoto
Hana Inoue ... Nana Satomi
Masao Mukai ... Nyûsu no Koe (voice)
Reiko Hiroshige ... Nyûsu no Koe (voice)
Takahiro Takano ... Nyûsu no Koe (voice)
Rui Tsurumizu ... Josei Ripôtâ
Gaku Adachi ... Dansei Kisha
Tarô Suwa ... Kôchô no Koe (voice)
Daisuke Ban ... Kyôtô
Shûichirô Idemitsu ... Shinbun Haitatsuin
Kazuhiro Yamaji ... Mitamura Ishi
Yûto Mizoguchi ... Shônen
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
J horâ shiatâ 2 (Japan) (series title)
J-Horror Theater Vol. 2 (International: English title) (series title)
Premonition (International: English title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for some disturbing images.
Runtime:
95 min
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A Final Destination-style tale with a J-Horror twist., 23 February 2009
7/10
Author: BA_Harrison from Hampshire, England

In Norio Tsuruta's Premonition, a malevolent supernatural newspaper selects victims at random and reveals to them disastrous headlines from the near-future. When family man Hideki Satomi finds himself haunted by the evil rag, he enters a nightmare world from which the only escape appears to be death.

Like Final Destination, the US horror hit that also dealt with foresight and cheating fate, Premonition is a supernatural chiller that opens with a bang: protagonist Hideki witnesses the death of his young daughter in an auto accident immediately after learning of her impending fate via a mysterious paper. It's an excellent beginning to the film: suspenseful, exciting and very harrowing.

Unfortunately, after this promising start, the plot slowly begins to lose momentum and despite great performances from its cast and one or two outstanding scares, the whole film looks set to be a huge disappointment. To his credit though, director Tsuruta picks up the pace again in the film's dying moments for a crazy finalé which sees Hideki leaping through time and space in a desperate bid to change history.

All in all, I found this inventive slice of J-Horror to be a reasonably fun ride, despite leaving me with a ton of unanswered questions (Why does the paper like to torment people? Why does it choose Hideki? Who prints the bloody thing? If it turns up on a Sunday, do you get supplements?) and fans of the Asian horror scene should still give it a go if they get the chance.

6.5 out of 10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb.

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