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Premonition

2004 · 95 min

A slow, dread-soaked J-horror that wraps fate and grief into a tense, melancholic puzzle.

Directed by
Norio Tsuruta
Genres
Horror
Starring
Hiroshi Mikami, Noriko Sakai, Kazuhiro Yamaji
Tagline
If you see it... you will die!
Overview
While stopped at a roadside phone booth for transmitting his work through the Internet to the university, Professor Hideki Satomi finds a scrap of newspaper with the picture of his five-year-old daughter Nana in the obituary section.

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Directed by
Norio Tsuruta
Genres
Horror
Starring
Hiroshi Mikami, Noriko Sakai, Kazuhiro Yamaji
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Tone
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • fate
  • death
  • grief
  • guilt
  • family
Places
  • big city
  • countryside
  • school
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror7
Humour1
Realism6
Romance3
Tension7
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
horror
Directed by
Norio Tsuruta
Written by
Noboru Takagi, Norio Tsuruta, Jirō Tsunoda
Starring
Hiroshi Mikami, Noriko Sakai, Kazuhiro Yamaji, Maki Horikita, Mayumi Ono, Kei Yamamoto, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tarō Suwa
Runtime
95 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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