Nightmare Detective (2006) a Tsukamoto Classic, Poster and Trailer

NIGHTMARE DETECTIVE (2006, Japan, on IMDB as Akumu Tantei) Region 2 PAL Italian DVD (RaroVideo)

The films of director Shinya Tsukamoto are always interesting but usually challenging. His two films of Tetsuo the Iron Man were extreme and disorientating, Haze was short and experimental, Hiruko the Goblin and Gemini bizarre and surreal.

Nightmare Detective appears to be his most mainstream, high profile project. A short plot summary looks accessible enough - a psychic who can enter other people’s dreams doing battle with a nightmare killer. This sounds familiar, in the vein of the many Elm Streets, but appearances can be deceptive…

Detective Keiko Kirishima (played by Hitomi) arrives on the scene of a suicide, but is suspicious that it’s not as it appears. When the case is linked to another violent and bloody death, her colleagues are astonished when she insists that it’s not only a murder case, but also in need of a psychic to solve it. Read more …