Akumu Tantei (2006)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Shinya Tsukamoto

Writer:

Shinya Tsukamoto (writer)

Release Date:

13 January 2007 (Japan)

Genre:

Fantasy | Horror | Thriller

Plot:

Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. "O" intends...

Plot Keywords:

Suicide | Blood | Young Man | Detective | Suicidal

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Ryuhei Matsuda	...	Nightmare Detective
Hitomi	...	Keiko Kirishima
Masanobu Ando	...	Detective Wakamiya
Ren Ôsugi	...	Detective Sekiya
Yoshio Harada	...	Keizo Oishi
Shinya Tsukamoto	...	'0'
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jin Muraki

Also Known As:

Nightmare Detective (International: English title)

Runtime:

Japan:106 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Singapore:M18 | Italy:VM14 | Germany:16 | Taiwan:R-18 | Japan:PG-12 | Australia:MA (2008) | South Korea:18

Filming Locations:

Japan

Company:

Kaijyu Theater

Movie Connections:

Followed by Akumu Tantei 2 (2008)

Soundtrack:

Gymnopédie No.3

If you like to watch cheap TV-soaps you're in for a treat!

It's amazing how easily some so-called "cineasts" can be fooled. Since Tsukamoto made his entry with his manga-goes-experimental-trash epic Tetsuo his admirers are always eager to describe his amateurish and boring outings as "challenging" and "visionary".

The only thing really astonishing about this so-called director is that in his work there is no bottom-line in sight. Who would have thought that he could come up with anything worse than the terrible pretentious "Haze"? And yet we have "Nightmare Detective" a black hole of a movie that negates any form of talent for everyone involved. Despite the actual idea that someone can enter the dreams of others, there is absolutely nothing original to be found here.

But yeah! i forgot - of course i just don't get it because this stuff is so "challengening" for the average viewer.

In my eyes the "average viewer" is more than used to wooden performances, bad lightning and shaky hand-cameras, you can watch it on cheap TV-Shows every day. Dreams in movies have a very long history and it's really embarrassing how the subject is treated here. There is no effort made whatsoever to visualize an actual dream-sequence. Instead we get a shaky camera and pools of blood. The actors sometimes give the impression of being actually forced to participate in this mess. I guess they felt a little "challenged" too much by Tsukamotos total lack of ideas.

And hey - if you really don't want to believe that this is trash, just wait for the cheap Eric Satie-Rip-Off in the soundtrack. Just awful.