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Akumu Tantei 2 (2008)

Original Title: Akumu Tantei 2
English Title: Akumu Tantei 2
Genre: Horror
Format: 35mm / 102min / Color
Year of Production: 2008
Release Date (Japan): December 2008 (tentative)
Production Company: Movie-Eye Entertainment / Kaijyu Theater
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Producers: Shinya Tsukamoto / Shinichi Kawahara / Takeshi Koide / Yumiko Takebe
Screenplay: Shinya Tsukamoto / Hisakatsu Kuroki
Director of Photography: Shinya Tsukamoto / Takayuki Shida
Music: Chu Ishikawa / Shinichi Kawahara
Main Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda / Yui Miura / Ken Mitsuishi

Synopsis

The whole thing started out as a prank. Yukie and her friends, Mutsumi and Akiko locked their classmate Kikukawa in an equipment room in the gym, to scare her. Though they let her out in the end, Kikukawa stopped coming to school the following day. Yukie began to have nightmares about Kikukawa. One day during the class, Yukie fell asleep and dreamt of Kikukawa suddenly throwing a cup of water at her, but it missed and instead of Yukie, it spilled on her friend Mutsumi. The next moment when Yukie woke up in class she found that Mutsumi had died of a heart attack. A few days after her death, Yukie has the same dream, but this time, it is her other friend, Akiko, she too dies an unnatural death. Yukie is convinced that she will be the next to die. Shaking with fear, and fighting the urge to sleep, Yukie begs Kyoichi, the Nightmare Detective, to help her. When he hears her story, he realizes that Kikukawa’s behavior reminds him of his own mother who was scared of everything and eventually committed suicide. Thinking that he may be able to get a step closer to the mystery of his mother’s death, he enters Yukie’s nightmares, to confront the very nature of fear itself.

About the Director

Shinya Tsukamoto is an exceptionally talented director in Japanese cinema who visualizes alternation and pain of human body with solid and pathetic modern city by his original taste. Born in Shibuya, Tokyo in 1960, he was just 14 years old when he first began filming with a 8mm camera. When he majored in figurative arts at Nihon University, College of Arts, he organized his own theatrical company. (1989 Tetsuo-The Iron Man, 1992 Tetsuo II: Body Hammer, 1995 Tokyo Fist, 1998 Bullet Ballet, 1999 Gemini, 2002 A Snake of June, 2004 Vital, 2005 Haze / Female, 2007 Nightmare Detective)

Sales Company

Movie Eye Entertainment, Inc.
Contact: Shirley Huang (Vice President International Operations)
Email: shirley@movie-eye.co.jp
Phone: +81-90-6521-3401
www.movie-eye.com

About the Sales Company

Movie-Eye Entertainment, Inc. contributes to a mutual understanding between Japan and countries around the world through films and visual entertainment. We import and distribute foreign films in Japan such as “Million Dollar Baby (2005)”, “Crash (2006)”, “A History of Violence (2006)”,“All About Love (2006)”, “Bobby (2007)”, “Family Hero (2007)” and “La Vie En Rose (2007)”. We have also produced “Nightmare Detective” directed by Shinya Tsukamoto in 2007, “The Longest Night in Shanghai” by Zhan Yibai, “The Night Time Picnic” by Masahiko Nakagawa in 2006,“Black Night (2006)”, “HINOKIO (2005)” “About Love (2005)” and “Last Love, First Love” in 2003.

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