PREMONITION (2004, Japan, aka YOGEN) Region 1 NTSC DVD (Lions Gate) Want to see the newspaper? This is the second in the 'J-Horror Theater' series of movies - six unrelated stories with different horror directors, linked only by the same production team (most importantly producer, Taka Ichise, trading on his success with the Ring and Ju-on franchises). Incidentally, there's a series of four Korean horror films coming out soon that are using this same trick (see the posters at - Aug 28 entry). Software Update Via Satellite Astra 19.2 East. Premonition was released in Japan as Yogen at the same time as the first in the series Kansen (Infection). The third, Rinne (Reincarnation), directed by Takashi Shimizu, was released in 2005. I was expecting more from this film, seeing as it was directed by Norio Tsuruta, whose eerie Kakashi and Ring 0: Birthday had impressed me. Premonition begins with a real life newspaper article about the same real-life psychic who inspired Ring, and was refered to in the book and movie.
Premonition (予言, Yogen) is a 2004 Japanese horror film directed by Tsuruta Norio. Yogen is based on the manga Kyoufu Shinbun ('Newspaper of Terror') by Jiro. Sep 26, 2006 PREMONITION (2004, Japan, aka YOGEN) Region 1 NTSC DVD (Lions Gate) Want to see the newspaper? Ornette Coleman Of Human Feelings Rar. This is the second in the 'J-Horror Theater' series of.
Jimmy Castor E Man Groovin Rar here. The strong premise is that a newspaper is delivered with headlines describing deaths that haven’t happened yet, and what happens when the reader tries to avert the fatalities. I can't describe much of the plot without spoiling it from the start.
I can just say that the opening scene is incredibly tragic and that the eerie mood doesn't take long to get established. Based on a thirty year old manga story called Kyofu Shinbun (literally Newspaper of Terror), The script expands and incorporates the original tale very cleverly.
In the thorough extras on the Region 1 DVD is a very honest interview with the director, Norio Tsuruta, who admits that his horror films have been much more subtle in the past, but now, jealous of the success of Takashi Shimizu, he’s been encouraged to ‘show more’ horror. Looks like he studied very closely, because there’s a similarly tour-de-force sequence of alternate realities towards the climax, where the viewer is disorientated by constantly changing timelines. He even cast the star of Ju-on 2, 'horror queen' Noriko Sakai, as the leading lady here. The original Japanese flyer Almost instantly, I was gripped by the film, which has a heavy air of supernatural suspense right from the start. This mood was sustained for much of the film, no mean feat, but the actual horror payoffs, that the director has previously avoided, didn’t work for me. Ghostly apparitions were shown in too strong a light as too physical, and failed to shock or scare, making the main actor’s reactions appear even more over the top.
