MPD Psycho (2000)

Original title

多重人格探偵サイコ

Directed by

Takashi Miike

Genre

horror fiction

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A detective develops multiple personalities after his wife is murdered by a serial killer. Years later, new murders appear to be committed by the same killer who is supposedly dead.

surrealdisturbingbleakfreneticunsettlingdarkvisceralgrislycerebral

What happens

MPD Psycho (full title Multiple Personality Detective Psycho – Kazuhiko Amamiya Returns) is a 2000 Japanese six-episode horror crime television series based on the manga of the same name and directed by Takashi Miike. It originally aired on 2 May 2000. It has a surrealist bent, and, according to Jim Harper, the author of Flowers from Hell, "bears little similarity to the average made-for-TV detective thriller". The plot is similar to the beginning of the manga series but does not relate to the incidents of Lucy Monostone and the Gakuso Company. The story takes place in the final days of the Shōwa Era. Yosuke Kobayashi, a detective assigned to a homicide unit, saw his wife killed by a serial killer, Shinji Nishizono. From the shock of the incident, he has multiple personality disorder and becomes Kazuhiko Amamiya. Soon after, he manages to hunt down and kill his wife's murderer. Now a series of murders has started and the suspect is claiming to be Shinji Nishizono. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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