Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

kluseba "Premonition" seems to be a rather ordinary psycho thriller in the beginning that deals with paranormal activities, family dramas and destiny. The actors are very credible and add a lot to the dark and desperate atmosphere of the movie that has no lengths and develops very well with a slow tension that rises more and more. Hiroshi Mikami convinces as desperate broken hearted man that faces destiny while the beautiful and charming Noriko Sakai does a very authentic job as a desperate and seemingly strong woman that is broken underneath the fragile surface.But the true reason why this movie gets such a high rating from me are the last thirty minutes or so of this flick. They are mysterious and disturbing and you don't know what is nightmare or reality or both of it anymore. At this part, the tension rises to an extreme height, the images are intense, the acting is truly addicting and the whole movie gets an awaited kick of genius. For the experts of the genre, the final conclusion might not be surprising but that doesn't change that the whole development is well thought and crafted.I would ultimately say that is movie is maybe one of the rare Asian psycho thrillers that could be understood and accepted by the masses without losing its charm and uniqueness and that's a quite unique thing which I would like to underline. The story is not too strange and slow paced but the weirdo and high amount of creativity and atmosphere is nevertheless heavily present. I would suggest this movie to anyone who would like to slowly get into this genre. It might be an intense but not too complicated introduction to a brilliant world of horror and creativity. I'm looking forward to show this movie to some of my friends to convince and tell them of my passion for mysterious Asian psycho thriller or horror flicks and will surely adore myself watching this again to discover the high amount of stunning details in the end of the film.

Tokyo-1997 Premonition is one of my Top 20 horror films that I have watched. I love the idea being used in this film, I love the originality of this movie. This movie is really very very original about fates. This movie is about a man who can see the future and when he tries to stop the future, terrible things starts happening to him. This movie is slow paced at times, but just let it grab you because for the last 20 minutes, I just could not stop watching this movie. In comparison to butterfly effect, I thought this ending was much better. The mystery elements used in this movie were just great. The scares used in this movie by the flying newspapers were great. This movie is not extremely scary, but is a show with a solid storyline. Though I had one major complain in this movie. The scene where the passengers board the train and the main character pulls his wife back and the train starts to move. I was expecting something to happen in the train but nothing happened. This movie is terrifying and scary psychologically. This movie is very original. I highly recommend this movie if you like shows such as The Time Machine or The Butterfly Effect. Score: 9/10

MBunge Premonition is one of those Japanese horror movies that focuses more on being creepy than terrifying. And outside of one guffaw-inducing moment, it mainly succeeds.The story starts with a Japanese family driving home. Mom Akaya (Noriko Sakai) is sweetly singing with little daughter Nana (Hana Inoue) while workaholic dad Hideki (Hiroshi Mikami) is typing away on his computer, finishing up some work for the office. Hideki's laptop loses its internet connection, so they stop at a phone booth. Apparently, pay phones in Japan have internet uplinks. Anyway, while Hideki emails his report back to the office, Akaya and Nana remain in the car parked on the roadside. While in the phone booth, Hideki notices a ragged scrap of newspaper in which he finds a story about his daughter being killed in a roadside accident. He freaks out as Akaya leaves the car and comes to his side…at which point a truck plows into the car and kills Nana.Flash forward a few years and Hideki and Akaya are divorced. He's a burned out high school teacher living in a crappy apartment. She's a university researcher studying psychic phenomenon, particularly a professor who can make images appear in instant photographs. Akaya's studies bring her to the work of Rei Kigata (Kei Yamamoto), who wrote about something called "The Newspaper of Terror". He describes people who claimed to receive news reports about tragedies before they occur. Meanwhile, Hideki starts to see more ragged newspapers and other signs of future disasters. When he learns one of his students is destined to die and he fails to save her, Hideki and Akaya are reunited in an effort to understand what's happened to them and why their daughter had to die.Though it features very little violence or gore, Premonition does contain a decent amount of scares. Like similar Japanese films, it concentrates on creating a mood of fear and uncertainty, eschewing the adrenaline-pumping plot dynamics of American horror flicks. This is the sort of film where the audience repeatedly sees the characters react to something and then the camera moves and the audience sees what they're reacting to. That storytelling distance produces more of an intellectual anxiety, instead of a visceral reaction.After building up the mystery of "The Newspaper of Terror", the story doesn't really pay it off. No questions are answered by the ending the movie offers up, which deal with more of an existential horror that doesn't quite seem like it fits the first three-quarters of the film. It's effective on its own, but I'm not sure it dramatically or thematically flows from what comes before it. It's like taking the conclusion of a good episode of The Twilight Zone and stapling it onto a different but vaguely similar episode of The Outer Limits.Outside of a single scene that is unintentionally hilarious, the acting and direction of Premonition are very nice. That one scene, though, is laugh-out-loud funny. It involves Japanese funeral rites, so the humor may be the byproduct of cultural differences, but I almost couldn't stop laughing when it happened.As long as you're prepared to accept an ending that fails to resolve any of the issues raised by its story, Premonition is worth seeing…if only for the most terrifying scrap of newsprint in cinematic history.

Cihan "Sean Victorydawn" Vercan (CihanVercan) Skillfully edited and highly tensioned, Yogen is one every so often discussed psycho-horror. It's been produced from the idea of the same titled Japanese comic book of 1950s' and follows the storyline of a solid Japanese novel from the same decade. The comic book creates a heroic theme out of a psychic family man who saves his family from a traffic accident, while the novel focuses on precognitive newspaper delusions seen by ordinary people.In the opening scene, giving a little clue of the main idea, we're being introduced to a middle-aged female victim of a paranormal incident taken from a newspaper article. She is being tested over her newly acquired supernatural skills at an university research laboratory. The second scene, where main characters are introduced, has the heart-wrenching traffic accident that gives cause for a chain of more alike accidents. The common trait of each accident is that they both have precognitive warnings to their survivors. The survivors of this first accident were parents to a 5-year-old singleton, who got killed in the accident. To their surprise their daughter has been the only vein that holds them together. Atfer the death of their daughter they get parted. They both keep receiving precognitive warnings for next alike accidents of their colleagues, disciples, friends and relatives.Over the last few years we've seen likes of this idea in Hollywood. With Sandra Bullock, also with Nicolas Cage there were either action or drama based films displayed. Among all, Yogen has the most influential message: Everyone has tremendous abilities hidden inside that might become surfaced once in a while for everyone. But we're not born to behave like angels or daemons. To have psychic skills is no means of becoming stronger or wiser. Uncontrolled power is not power at all, and we're not born to have such powers.With extreme usage of melodrama and surrealist pen-portraits, Yogen is a one-way ticket for travelling into a metaphysical world of limitless secrets, symbols, dreams and intuition where time has lost its permanence.