"Tajuu jinkaku tantei saiko - Amamiya Kazuhiko no kikan" (2000) TV mini-series

Director:

Takashi Miike

Writers:

Eiji Ootsuka (novel)
Eiji Ootsuka (screenplay)

Release Date:

2 May 2000 (Japan)

Genre:

Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

Yosuke Kobayashi, a detective assigned on a homicide unit, saw his wife killed by a serial killer, Shinji Nishizono...

Plot Keywords:

Homicide | Murder | Serial Killer | Detective | TV Mini-Series

Cast

Naoki Hosaka	...	Kazuhiko Amamiya / Yôsuke Kobayashi / Shinji Nishizono
Tomoko Nakajima	...	Machi Isono
Ren Ôsugi	...	Tooru Sasayama (as Ren Oosugi)
Sadaharu Shiota	...	Masaki Manabe (as Sadaharu Shioda)
Yoshinari Anan	...	Kikuo Toguchi
Rieko Miura	...	Chizuko Honda / Chizuko Kobayashi
Lily	...	Yôko Yamamoto
Nae	...	Tomoyo Tanabe (as Nae Yuuki)
Satoshi Matsuda	...	Tatsuya Ueno (as Tomonori Masuda)
Fujiko	...	Mami Sasayama / Tooru's wife
Saki Ohara		(as Saki Oohara)
Hiroto Horibe
Chiaki Kuriyama
Shun Satô	...	Saku Ooe
Shun Ichijô	...	Hisashi Shimazu

Also Known As:

MPD - Psycho (Multiple Personality Detective): The Complete Miniseries (USA) (DVD box title)
MPD Psycho (USA) (DVD box title)
MPD Psycho II (USA) (DVD box title)
MPD Psycho III (USA) (DVD box title)
Multiple Personality Detective Psycho - Kazuhiko Amamiya Returns (International: English title)

Runtime:

54 min (6 episodes)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

UK:18 (edited version) | Australia:R

Filming Locations:

Japan

Company:

Excellent Film

Movie Connections:

References "The X Files" (1993)

Miike Mpd Psycho

I got the entire of series 1 of this and i thought it was GREAT like a lot of Miike films it doesn't seem to make much sense until you see the end of it and also like other Miike films he has a weird habit of randomly blurring parts out. The story of MPD psycho does pan out quite considerably after the first DVD and does get very involved and interesting, i sat and watched the entire first series back to back and totally enjoyed it. Miike does tend to make films seem somewhat obscure in the way they are written and directed but thats what i find makes him so great, you spend ages trying to work out whats going on and then you're like "Oh of course it is!" and it just seems so obvious the same applies to MPD despite what other people have said i thought it was excellent