I’ve been a fan of writer & director Shinya Tsukamoto since I first experienced TETSU: THE IRON MAN (1992), which was a mind-blowing. That film tested the patience and mind of the viewer taking him/her into a technological nightmare of techno machinery. Tsukamoto’s newest film NIGHTMARE DETECTIVE is a different animal altogether.
This new film focuses on a Detective Keika Kirishima (Hitomi) who is investigating a series of unusual suicides that she in fact believes are murders. She believes that the people are being driven to suicide by the mysterious “O” (Shinya Tsukamoto), who has the ability to enter people’s nightmare’s in order to kill them. She enlists the aid of a eccentric man by the name of Akumu Tantei (Ryuhei Matsuda) who helps people by going into their dreams to help them overcome some of their deepest fears. Akumu is distraught over the death of the last person he tried to help that killed himself. He hopes that by helping the Det. Kirishima that he will be able to overcome some of his own fears and frustrations.
Like many of Tsukamoto’s previous films this is a slow burning experience that has a huge payoff in the end that will satisfy even the most jaded of Tsukamoto fans. It’s not as much a head trip as his best films like TETSUO II: BODY HAMMER (1992), A SNAKE OF JUNE (2002), HIRUKO THE GOBLIN (1991), and GEMINI (1991). This is one of his more accessible films to larger audiences which should bring more people to his older films which is always good.
This new film focuses on a Detective Keika Kirishima (Hitomi) who is investigating a series of unusual suicides that she in fact believes are murders. She believes that the people are being driven to suicide by the mysterious “O” (Shinya Tsukamoto), who has the ability to enter people’s nightmare’s in order to kill them. She enlists the aid of a eccentric man by the name of Akumu Tantei (Ryuhei Matsuda) who helps people by going into their dreams to help them overcome some of their deepest fears. Akumu is distraught over the death of the last person he tried to help that killed himself. He hopes that by helping the Det. Kirishima that he will be able to overcome some of his own fears and frustrations.
Like many of Tsukamoto’s previous films this is a slow burning experience that has a huge payoff in the end that will satisfy even the most jaded of Tsukamoto fans. It’s not as much a head trip as his best films like TETSUO II: BODY HAMMER (1992), A SNAKE OF JUNE (2002), HIRUKO THE GOBLIN (1991), and GEMINI (1991). This is one of his more accessible films to larger audiences which should bring more people to his older films which is always good.
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