Japan Synopsis
予言
While stopped at a roadside phone booth for transmitting his work through 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. He sees his wife Ayaka trying to release their daughter from the seatbelt, when a truck hits his car killing Nana. Three years later, Hideki is divorced from Ayaka, who is researching paranormal people who claim to have read an evil newspaper anticipating the future. Still trying to believe in Hideki, she finds that there are people cursed to foresee the future but without the power to save the victims. When Hideki changes the future saving Ayaka, he becomes trapped in hell and he has to make a choice for his own destiny.
The 2003–2005 Japan Window
298 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. Premonition sits at position #217.
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The 2000s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 2000s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Premonition premiered. 1020 total titles in this decade from Japan.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #3,695 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (19th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.8 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Horror productions specifically: #174 of 391 (top 45%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Entertainment Farm, Fellah Pictures, Geneon Entertainment |
| Runtime | 1h 35m |
| Release Date | October 2, 2004 |
| IMDb | tt0419280 |