Plot

A newspaper predicts the deaths of a man's (Hiroshi Mikami) family members and friends.

While stopped at a roadside phone booth to transmit his work through the Internet to the university, Professor Hideki Satomi finds a scrap of newspaper with a picture of his five-year-old daughter Nana in the obituary section. He sees his wife Ayaka Satomi trying to release their daughter from the seat belt, when a truck without steering 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 and still trying to believe Hideki, and she finds that there are people cursed to foresee the future without power to save the victims. When Hideki changes the future by saving Ayaka, he becomes trapped in hell and must make a choice regarding his own destiny.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

High-school teacher Hideki Satomi (Hiroshi Mikami), his wife Ayaka (Noriko Sakai) who works as a psychology teacher, and their five-year-old daughter Nana (Hana Inoue) are driving home to Tokyo after a vacation. While on a country road, Hideki stops to upload a file in a phone booth. Inside, he sees a newspaper scrap showing his daughter being involved in a car crash, dated just a minute later at 8:00 PM. He is left confused and is shown contemplating what to do as he is unsure of what to do. As Ayaka steps outside to get Hideki's help on Nana's jammed seat belt, a truck smashes through their car, at the same time the newspaper scrap flies out of his hands. As Hideki attempts to help Nana, the car explodes killing her and leaving both Hideki and Ayaka horrified and grief stricken. A distraught Hideki tries to find the newspaper scrap in front of reporters while Ayaka tearfully tries to stop him.

Three years later, Ayaka, having divorced Hideki, interviews a psychic, Satoko Mikoshiba (Kazuko Yoshiyuki) who is known for taking Polaroid photos of future newspapers. She decided to interview her to learn more about the "Newspaper of Terror". After showing fear and reluctance, Mikoshiba tells Ayaka that a lawyer had once contacted her about the newspaper, but he disappeared soon after. At home, Ayaka receives a mysterious phone call from Mikoshiba and decides to visit her again. Inside, Ayaka finds several journals that archived Polaroid photos of newspapers that foreshadowed future accidents. She finds Mikoshiba lying dead and surrounded by Polaroid photos. Grabbing a photo from Mikoshiba's hand, she quickly calls Hideki about the Newspaper of Terror, as the photo shows a newspaper detailing Hideki's death, but he frantically cuts her off as he believes she still thinks he is insane.

Meanwhile, Hideki is haunted by premonitions and is restless whenever he sees any newspapers. A student of his, Sayuri Wakakubo (Maki Horikita) who talks about something that could not be prevented, catches his attention. One night, Hideki sees a newspaper foreshadowing Wakakubo's death. He rushes to Wakakubo's home, but is too late to stop her from being stabbed to death by a lunatic. Meeting Ayaka, Hideki tells her about his student's death as well as his premonitions; they reconcile and agree to team up to solve the case.

The two visit the house of Rei Kigata, a man who is reported having researched about the Newspaper of Terror. His house is deserted and covered with dirt. Finding a set of videotapes, they watch the first video dated thirteen years ago, in which Kigata (Kei Yamamoto) explains that after receiving premonitions, he worked to prevent it, which, while saving people, caused his hand to mysteriously darken as a side effect. The 32nd video shows his body completely darkened and waving at the camera, before walking off screen for the last time. Hideki and Ayaka eventually find what is left of his remains: a lump of ashes with a vague shape of a human body.

Hideki is uncertain whether he should let people die or save them at the cost of his own life, though Ayaka begs him not to. The two reaffirm their relationship and make love. The next day, Ayaka goes to work by train when her car breaks down, unknowingly leaving her phone inside. In Ayaka's apartment, Hideki receives a newspaper showing a train accident with more than 100 casualties, including Ayaka. He attempts to get more information and manages to learn when the accident was going to take place, before the newspaper disappears completely. He quickly travels to the train station and gets Ayaka leave the train, but is unable to save everyone else, including Ayaka's friend Misato (Mayumi Ono). Afterwards, the two attend a funeral for Misato and learn that her face was torn off from the accident. Ayaka notices that Hideki's hand has darkened as a side effect.

Planning to move in together with Ayaka, Hideki packs his belongings, but is confronted by visions of the victims of the accidents, including Misato, Wakakubo, Kigata, and Mikoshiba. Hideki ends up repeatedly flashing back to the accident, attempting to save both his wife and daughter. The first time, he manages to save Nana, but witnesses Ayaka being run over by a truck. No matter how many times he tries to save his family, he either is only able to save one, but not the other.

Eventually he realizes that he cannot save both his wife and daughter as long as he is alive, Hideki flashes to the car accident and manages to save Nana and tells Ayaka to run, he chooses to remain at his car which explodes, killing him. A distraught Ayaka screams in horror and grief, while Nana sees the Newspaper of Terror dropping on her, revealing Hideki as the casualty of the car accident, just as the psychic predicted in her photograph and the screen fades to black. (Courtesy of Wikipedia)