# Nightmare Detective (2007)

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**Original title**: *悪夢探偵*
**Runtime**: 105 min
**Genres**: Thriller, Horror, Crime, Mystery
**Directed by**: Shinya Tsukamoto
**Written by**: Shinya Tsukamoto, Hisakatsu Kuroki
**Starring**: Ryuhei Matsuda, Hitomi, Masanobu Ando, Yoshio Harada, Shinya Tsukamoto, Ren Osugi

> *You die in the dream, you die for real.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Rain-slicked alley behind a convenience store. A man’s wrist bleeds into his pyjama sleeve as he slumps in a folding chair, still strapped to the frame. Keiko Kirishima kneels beside the body, her flashlight catching the faint smell of burnt sugar and antiseptic. Tsukamoto’s neon-drenched Tokyo churns with a new kind of plague—death masquerading as sleep.

**Mood tags**: dread, neon-soaked, surreal

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