Premonition

Carrying on the tradition of J-horror thrillers that have taken the Western world by storm Premonition is a creepy descent into the realms of the supernatural assuming an unnerving non-linear form and taking numerous unexpected turns along the way. Hideki Satomi is a professor whose world is turned upside down when he reads an obituary foretelling his daughters death in a car crash which in fact comes to pass later that same day. Three years later Hideki is still devastated by this tragedy which has estranged him from his wife Ayaka who is convinced her husband is crazy she believes he hallucinated the obituary which later came to obsess him. Eventually however the two switch roles as Ayaka herself comes to be haunted by the future-predicting newspaper and a series of unexplained killings all over Japan draws the couple ever-deeper into the mystery. Although Premonition satisfies the expectation audiences have come to hold with regards to Japanese horror it avoids redundancy and the ubiquitous imagery found in such films making it a unique and engrossing entry in this ever-exciting genre and serves as the basis for the 2007 film of the same name starring Sandra Bullock.