Nightmare Detective

Nightmare Detective

2007 · 105 min · JA · 5.8 (62 votes)
Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto · Starring Ryuhei Matsuda, Hitomi, Masanobu Ando, Yoshio Harada, Shinya Tsukamoto, Ren Osugi · Music Chu Ishikawa · Nightmare Detective Collection
ThrillerHorror

Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. "O" intends suicide while talking on a cell-phone with a stranger he meets on line who plans a simultaneous suicide. Events take a horrifying turn. Keiko Kirishima is a cool, seemingly emotionless police detective, brilliant but off-putting. She's faced with two mutilated corpses who appear to have killed themselves, but she's not sure. A cell-phone number links the deaths. She calls on Akumu Tantei, a poor and suicidal young man who has the ability to enter people's dreams. He's reluctant to help. His past haunts him. A subconscious duel of terror and blood awaits the three.

VIBE

A deeply unsettling, dreamlike descent into the subconscious. It's a melancholic and surreal journey through trauma and the allure of oblivion, where reality blurs with nightmarish visions. Prepare for a slow, dread-soaked experience.

surrealdread-soakedunsettlingmelancholicnightmarishslow-burnarthouse horrorpsychological thrillerJ-horrorsuicidedreamsidentitytrauma
MORE LIKE THIS — multi-vector + why, diversified