Police detective Sosuke is shot down while chasing down a suspect. While he is unconscious, his gun is stolen. He recovers, but loses his wife and resigns from the police force. All of a sudden, his lost gun is used in a series of crimes.
Direction
Aoyama's detached, clinical observation of spiritual rot.
Acting
Ishibashi's hollowed-out performance of a man erasing himself.
Cinematography
Bleach-bypass urban landscapes that feel actively hostile.
Director
Shinji Aoyama
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot on 16mm blown up to 35mm, giving those grainy, oppressive textures that feel like moral pollution.
Part of Japan's 1990s 'identity crisis' cinema alongside Cure and Charisma—films where the country's economic collapse became psychological horror.
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