Genre: Horror, Thriller, Suspense
Starring: Ryuhei Matsuda, Hitomi, Masanobu Ando, Ren Osugi, Yoshio Harada
Release year: 2006
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Hard Sub)
SYNOPSIS:
A series of gruesome and mysterious apparent suicides prompts a female detective (Hitomi) to investigate. She discovers that the common denominator in all cases was the fact that the victim’s had dialed Zero on their phones before they died. All signs from the investigation indicates that something supernatural is occurring and when the detective suspects it has something to do with the nightmare world, she convinces a young social outcast (Matsuda) with the ability to enter dreams to aid in her investigation.
RATING: 9/10
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REVIEW:
"NIGHTMARE DETECTIVE once again brings you to a new level in Tsukamoto’s film career. With his largest budget yet, one would expect him to sell out and give in but he does no such thing. The excessive money only gives Tsukamoto bigger ideas. A killer from your nightmares that can only be stop by a reclusive detective which can enter your mind. Sounds original to me. In my opinion, he never took the easy way out by making a more commercial film, though I do believe it is by far his most accessible to date. Instead, he brings the mainstream audience deep into the off- the- wall world of Shinya Tsukamoto. His larger budget only delivers a more bizarre film for audiences to attempt to comprehend. Nothing seems to be absent from his usual fare. Still present, is a very uncomfortable steadi-cam to set its viewers in a frenzy. This is what really drew me in. He never seemed pressured into making a studio approved blockbuster film.
As usual the acting really makes the film for me. While my wife and I differed on are feelings for the performance from J-pop star Hitomi (I thought she did well while my wife believed it was another suffered performance from a singer attempting to act), we were both on par with are love of Ryuhei Matsuda and Masunobu Ando. One could argue that Matsuda acts the same in each movie, not unlike some people’s complaint of Tadanobu Asano, but I really enjoy every character I see him portray. He just has an essence of cool to him that brings a smile to your face while watching him go through his signature style of acting. Ando as always was equally likable. Both actors really know how to choose the right work and directors to give them the edge on most of other actors in Japanese cinema today. As always though, the shining crown here that pretty much steals every scene is Tsukamoto himself. Man, is he creepy in this film and it fits the character to a ‘T’. Like the work in his equally impressive HAZE, his movement and presence is what makes the experience so unnerving. I really hope he never gives up acting in his own films or other director’s works because he is a true pleasure to endure especially at his most cringing moments of awkwardness.
So what are my complaints about the film, you ask? Not too many. For one thing, I felt it was a bit long for its own good. At often times it felt like it was dragging along with material that could have been trimmed to make the film a bit tighter as a whole. The film also suffers from what his known as multiple endings. There were two times during the end of the film, which I felt would have been good stopping points. So do I believe it is Tsukamoto’s best work yet? No, but I was damn well pleased and still believe he has some even more greatness buried deep in the sequels. Sequels you say. Yes, it has already been announced that there will be (possibly) two upcoming sequels to the film both from the mind of Tsukamoto. As we speak, the director is deep in production of NIGHTMARE DETECTIVE 2 that is said to dig deeper into the childhood of Matsuda’s character and hopefully shed some light on how all this came to be. I for one will be there to find out what is to follow. Now all we need to do is pray that the Weinstein Company get off their asses and release this film in US theaters already. It damn well deserves to be seen by the masses. "
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