Ryuhei Matsuda as a detective with the ability to enter dreams in a horror-tinged mystery by Shinya Tsukamoto? Yes, please. The film is about to premiere at the Pusan Film Festival and they've posted a pair of stunning stills on their website.
""A competent detective, Keiko Kirishima, encounters two mysterious suicides. Somehow the two incidents seem to be connected since the victims dialled the same number '0' with their cellphones just before their death. Then one of the victim's wife who was sleeping next to him, testifies that it looked like someone was attacking him in the dream. Keiko and her colleagues visit the reference room, looking for a clue to solve the mystery of the two suicides. There, they found information about a man, so-called 'Nightmare Detective', who can enter one's dream. Keiko asks him to cooperate with their sting operation but is bluntly refused. The murder's riddle is still unrevealed and later on we even found out that he holds the same power to slipping into people's dreams. Though a direful ending is already expected, knowing there is no other way out, Keiko approaches the truth and decides to dial the deadly '0' by herself...."
Nightmare Detective Website (trailer within)
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Still two
Just. Can't. Wait.
New Tsukamoto is an event indeed.
I hope this will be great and not the kind of mainstream crap (e.g. HIRUKO: GOBLIN HUNTER) he sometimes does to finance more personal projects.
I've got a bit of a weak spot for Hiruko, but I see where you're coming from and I don't think you have to worry about that, Caterpillar. That was purely a director-for-hire gig where he came in on someone else's project. This is a labor of love and Tsukamoto's from start to finish, he wrote it as a tribute to Edogawa Ranpo and the old horror serials he loved as a kid. It'll be more straight than most of his stuff since he really does want to serialize the character but just take a look at that trailer and what he's done with Matsuda ... 'straight' Tsukamoto is still a hell of a lot darker and more twisted than what most turn out on a bad day ...
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