Movies like Premonition
If Premonition's mix of newspaper, professor and classroom stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Premonition's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
1995 · Directed by Takao Okawara · 103 min7.8
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese horror film
A burning Godzilla, on the verge of meltdown, emerges to lay siege to Hong Kong. At the same time horrifying new organisms are discovered in Japan.
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Onibaba
1964 · Directed by Kaneto Shindō · 105 min7.7
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese horror film
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find.
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Godzilla Minus One
2023 · Directed by Takashi Yamazaki · 125 min7.6
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese horror film
In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back…
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Godzilla vs. Biollante
1989 · Directed by Kazuki Ōmori · 105 min7.3
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese horror film
After the previous Godzilla attack, a miniature arms race ensues to collect his cells. Concerned over Godzilla's possible return, the Japanese government uses the cells to create a new bio-weapon, ANEB (Anti-Nuclear…
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Blood: The Last Vampire
2000 · Directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo · 48 min6.9
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese horror film · From the same decade (2000s)
In Japan, the vampire-hunter Saya, who is a powerful original, is sent by her liaison with the government, David, posed as a teenage student to the Yokota High School on the eve of Halloween to hunt down vampires.
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Ju-on: The Grudge
2002 · Directed by Takashi Shimizu · 92 min6.8
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese horror film · From the same decade (2000s)
When a social worker is sent to check on a traumatized elderly woman whose family have moved in at the site of a notorious murder case, she unwittingly unleashes a cycle of terror that transmits via its victims.
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Dark Water
2002 · Directed by Hideo Nakata · 101 min6.8
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese horror film · From the same decade (2000s)
A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
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Lesson of the Evil
2012 · Directed by Takashi Miike · 129 min6.7
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese horror film
Seiji Hasumi is a popular English teacher in a private high school. He is also a violent and sociopathic killer who concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body.
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Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle
1987 · Directed by Daisuke Nishio · 45 min6.7
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese horror film
Goku and Kuririn are given an assignment by Kame-Sen'nin: "Retrieve the sleeping princess from Lucifer and I will take you as my students." But the mission proves to be more perilous than originally thought.
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Re/Member
2022 · Directed by Eiichiro Hasumi · 103 min6.7
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese horror film
Six high schoolers stuck in a murderous time loop must find the scattered remains of an unknown victim to break the curse and finally see another day.
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Gantz
2010 · Directed by Shinsuke Sato · 130 min6.5
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese horror film
After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth.