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Series · 2000–2000Ended

MPD Psycho

7.2·1 season·6 episodes·54 min avg.·Japan

MPD Psycho (full title: Multiple Personality Detective Psycho – Kazuhiko Amamiya Returns) is a six-part Japanese surrealist horror miniseries directed by Takashi Miike, based on Eiji Ōtsuka's manga series of the same name. Homicide detective Yosuke Kobayashi saw his wife killed by serial killer Shinji Nishizono. From the shock of the incident, he suffers from multiple personality disorder and becomes Kazuhiko Amamiya. Soon after, he goes on the hunt for revenge.

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Memories of Sin/Drifting Petals
Memories of Sin/Drifting PetalsUp next
May 2, 2000

A sadistic criminal is turning his victims into human flower pots. Detective Amamiya Kazuhiko is called out of early retirement to investigate the case, which is tied to horrific events in his past. His new wife goes missing and a mysterious cult with barcodes tattooed on their eyeballs surfaces to wreak havoc on the city.

02
How to Create a World
How to Create a World
May 3, 2000

A brutal serial killer cuts babies from their mothers' womb in what appears to be a copycat crime from five years earlier. All of the women have barcodes tattooed on their eyeballs. The victims, under some sort of hypnosis, purchase the surgical quality knives used to kill them the day before their murders. As Detective Amamiya's wife wanders the city in a trance, he discovers someone from his past is involved in the crime wave.

03
Life Is a Constant Double Helix
Life Is a Constant Double Helix
May 4, 2000

Detective Amamiya and the police team are investigating the mass suicide of forty girls from a posh high school. Amamiya goes undercover as a high school teacher to find out why and learn more about a new generation of barcoders, many of whom are students at this militaristic high school. Chiaki Kuriyama guest stars.

04
The Crushed Ant
The Crushed Ant
May 5, 2000

Perfectly severed body parts with numbers cut into them are discovered in a field. In a nearby arcade, two rival youth gangs battle each other and Amamiya's wife is taken prisoner by a gang leader. The Police Chief tries to put together more of Amamiya's hidden past with the assistance of a one-eyed snuff filmmaker.

05
Coronation of the Cursed King
Coronation of the Cursed King
May 6, 2000

Cult members spontaneously combust when the barcoder network is infected. The burn victims are taken to the local hospital where a lonely employee's cyber girlfriend tells him to kill people. Detective Amamiya and his team lock down the hospital, while strange things happen on the secret 13th floor.

06
Soaring Souls and Human Bondage
Soaring Souls and Human Bondage
May 7, 2000

The Police Department denies that the barcode case ever existed in a massive cover-up attempt. Three remaining members of the investigation team decide to continue working on the case on their own. The Police Chief's entire family dies under mysterious circumstances. Amamiya tracks down the baby stealer to a remote cabin in a snowstorm for a final showdown to recover his own missing child.

Cast

12 credited
Ren Osugi
Tooru Sasayama
Naoki Hosaka
Kazuhiko Amamiya / Yôsuke Kobayashi / Shinji Nishizono
Tomoko Nakajima
Machi Isono
SS
Sadaharu Shioda
Masaki Manabe
YA
Yoshinari Anan
Kikuo Toguchi
Rieko Miura
Chizuko Honda / Chizuko Kobayashi
Lily
Yôko Yamamoto
Nae Yuuki
Tomoyo Tanabe
Satoshi Matsuda
Tatsuya Ueno
Fujiko
Mami Sasayama

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