The movie starts out with a family consisting of a father, mother and a little girl who are out driving their car and stops at a phone booth since the father has to use it. In the phone booth he finds an article from a newspaper showing a picture of his daughter and saying that she died in a traffic accident on the same day and time as he's reading the actual newspaper scrap. Next thing, the mother leaves the car and shortly after that the car gets hit by a truck, still with the daughter inside of it. That's basically the story of the movie, how could the paper tell what was going to happen, and that's what they try to figure out during the rest of the movie. It's more to it than that but you should just see it for yourself.
I had somewhat kinda high expectations for Premonition since I had read a lot about it before actually viewing it, and the story seemed really cool and more over, really original.
I'm a fan of Asian horror movies, but for some time now most of these movies have been kind of the same, they might still be good to a certain extent, always look terrific and have talented actors in them but often after watching most them you feel that you seen it before, and from what I read about Premonition it seemed different and that you might would be in for something original for a change.
 
And let me tell you, this movie is truly original and feels very fresh among a lot of other Asian horror titles.
Like most other Asian horror movies coming out, this one looks really good and the acting is belivable. Other than that we don't have to put up with any ghost girls with long black hair either and that's really nice for a change.
The story itself is interesting and the movie is interesting to watch as you wanna know what's going to happen. I would rather like to describe Premonition as sort of a (psycho) thriller then your typical horror movie.
It's actually not really scary but more mysterious, dark and has this certain feel to it which makes it really good.
If you're looking for something different among all the newer Asian horror titles, this would be it.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: J-Horror Theater Vol. 2, Yogen
MOVIE YEAR: 2004
DIRECTOR: Norio Tsuruta
WRITING CREDITS: Jirô Tsunoda, Noboru Takagi
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Daisuke Ban, Maki Horikita, Hiroshi Mikami
COUNTRY: Japan
RUNTIME: 95 min
RATING: 8/10
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Premonition Trailer Click here
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