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While stopped at a roadside phone booth, Professor Hideki Satomi finds a scrap of newspaper with a picture of his 5-year-old daughter, Nana, under a road accident headline. He sees his wife, Ayaka, trying to release their daughter from their car, when an out of control truck hits his car killing Nana. Three years later, Ayaka, who's now divorced from Hideki, is researching paranormal events where some people claim to have read an "evil newspaper" anticipating the future. Her research reveals that these people are cursed to foresee the future, but are helpless when trying to save the victims. The more she researches, the more Ayaka believes Hideki's accounts on what happened three years prior, but when Hideki tries to change the future, he becomes seemingly trapped in a Hell from which there's no escape.Asian horror films usually have something in common in one way or another....they can be quite strange, pretty creepy, and confusing. Premonition falls into all these, and as long as you can follow it, it's actually a pretty enjoyable film. It's quite a slow going film as well, but you don't really get bored of it because you get drawn in. As long as the story is an interesting one, and you can follow it, then a slow going film isn't too bad. For me, Premonition is exactly like this.As I mentioned before, there are some creepy moments and when you add in the atmosphere of the scenes, they do a very good job of creeping you out. A couple of scenes may disturb some people namely the car crash scene and another scene that involves Nana, but they are not there just for the sake of it as they are obviously vital to the story.The story has a Final Destination feel to it as well, and while Final Destination concentrates more on the visual "jump scares", Premonition concentrates more in the psychological aspect. Overall, Premonition is a pretty good film to watch and if you're a fan of Asian horror, then I recommend giving this one a go.

Norio Tsuruta's Yogen (Premonition) had quite an interesting premise that drew me in. (Off topic for a bit) I first heard about this movie on a "Top Ten J-Horror Movies" video on Youtube, and this title got number 8, but it's premise left me wondering for so long. It wasn't until a year later I was able to get a DVD for this movie, and when I finally sat down and watched this movie I was severely underwhelmed. I don't know what I was expecting, but what I got was a rather predictable, melodramatic boring film.First of all, there are some effective moments. When Hideki first touches the newspaper in the phone booth, there is this creepy chilling moan that gave me a good scare, then after that the ambient horror music started to build and he first read the paper, revealing who was going to be killed. This also scared me, and then what follows is a inevitable jump scare, but a rather good one nonetheless. This is all in the beginning of the film so I was psyched to see the rest of the movie. After all it had such a promising start, the rest would have to be good right? Sadly, the film falls flat shortly after, by making a cliché "3 years later" cut, that shows Hideki coping with what he encountered years before. I had a real problem with this, because I was much interested seeing him developing during this time period, seeing him cope with what happened. Instead we see him act like a down on his luck, brooding cop from a cliché action movie.The inclusion of psychics just seemed so trivial to me, why have them? What is their connection to the paper? That sub-plot doesn't go anywhere. This is a minor spoiler, but Hideki gains the ability to see into the future (like the paper) but if he tries to prevent his predictions from coming true he gets giant ink stains on his skin and eventually this would kill him (if he kept doing it). There were other psychics in this movie but why were they there!? Couldn't they just be people who encountered the paper as well? Could they not afford more scenes of the CGI newspaper? The acting was average, bordering bad.The CGI Paper looked really silly (especially in the scene where it's chasing a char).Really bad dialogue, "It came. The Newspaper." Or "Whenever I see a paper, I remember that day." Intelligence insulting story telling.The ending was predictable, I saw this coming from a mile away, I wont spoil it but its a corny bitter-sweet ending.Other things that bug me, is why hasn't Hideki seen the killer paper at all during the 3 years span? Why all of a sudden does this happen to him at once? Why is there power in a dead guy's house when he died in 1992? Why at the end he didn't just drive away (if you see the movie you will know what I am talking about)??? What the **** was the deal with the god **** psychics!?

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.

Yogen begins with a tight sequence full of foreboding. A married couple with their young daughter are driving home from vacation when the father, Professor Hideki Satomi, needs to send an email. To get an internet connection they stop at a phone booth, and whilst waiting for his email to connect Hideki receives a shocking premonition. He discovers a newspaper depicting his daughter Nana's death: she dies in a car explosion, alone, after an impact by a lorry. He spots the date - it's today's - he sees the time - it's now - it happens right behind him, his wife Ayaka having tried unsuccessfully to release Nana from the back seat. This opening is suspenseful and subsequently sets a high expectation for the rest of the film.We now travel three years into the future where Hideki and Ayaka are divorced, their marriage not having survived the horrific experience and aftermath of Nana's death. Their continuing relationship is explored with surprising depth: no character is wholly blamed for past events and both leads are written believably and with sympathy. Hideki soon becomes haunted with other premonitions, and with his ex-wife's help finds some answers about his own fate and others. This leads to the most disappointing part of the film, the meandering middle section, where audiences fidget and become eager for a pay-off.It's worth the wait. With a journey into hell, one shocking sequence in particular and some genuine 'jump' moments, Yogen also manages to incorporate familiar concepts from films such as Groundhog Day and The Butterfly Effect. Despite this, the premise still feels fresh and the last twenty minutes deserve full attention.I wouldn't classify Yogen solely as a horror, as the conventions of mystery, thriller and even some romance are also apparent. This film relies more on character development and a well thought-out (albeit sometimes slow) script than cheap shocks or blood and gore. With strong acting (most notably the stressed-out and suitably skinny performance from Hiroshi Mikami as Hideki), nicely crafted sequences and a pervading score, this film is predictable and unpredictable in equal measures. Admittedly uneven, if a viewer has enjoyed films of a similar premise, they can be confident Yogen ultimately delivers and entertains.