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The lead girl can sense when someone is going to die violently. The mental images torment her. To add to this problem, her professor take her and several of her friends to a haunted village that had been abandoned several years ago. The men started dying in droves and the belief is that the village had been cursed.

After return from the class trip, the students start dying one by one. Some die in front of the lead girl. She tells them to be careful but they do not listen. The police find that each one of them had come into a lot of cash - ¥10 million. The girl tells other survivors not to use the money but they do and die. The last remaining visitors to the village including this girl seem not so stupid as to take the money but they do. There are multiple plot twists in the end but you will never guess it. A good entertainer throughout.

TV Tokyo's archives has a lot of old tapes with news footage that have never been aired. The reason being they are too bizarre and had to be verified by another team. A new TV director and assistant director join the broadcast station as new recruits and their first job is to sort out this collection of unaired news footage. The duo choose what is interesting and visit the original location where the tape was recorded. Their investigations bring some new footage of ghosts and other strange phenomenon. As old wounds are rekindled, fresh blood sometimes gets spilled.

The TV drama will be interesting for people new to Japanese horror themes. For others, it may not be so.