A voyeur with scrambled senses hunts a killer who paints in blood.
Shin is a professional voyeur who provides live camera feeds of everything from the street corner to the public toilet. He is also afflicted freakish phenomenon known as synesthesia - a glitch in his wiring puts his five senses in a blender and spits out something close to insanity. A high-profile murder propels him into a psychological odyssey in pursuit of Picasso - a serial killer, snuff peddler and fellow synesthete - who leaves deadly hidden messages in his victims' blood that only Shin can decipher. Lulling his victims into a trance with a spellbinding video game, Picasso leads Shin down a mysterious, hypnotic trail of death.
Direction
Matsuura turns synesthesia into genuinely disorienting visual language.
Cinematography
Noise-drenched Tokyo nights that crawl under your skin.
Acting
Eguchi commits fully to Shin's unraveling physicality.
Director
Toru Matsuura
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Masanobu Ando was fresh off Battle Royale when cast as Picasso, bringing instant cult credibility.
The film arrived during Japan's 2000s 'sensorial horror' wave alongside Marebito and Rinne, exploring technological alienation through bodily experience.
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