Shinya TSUKAMOTO 塚本晋也
Nightmare Detective 2
悪夢探偵２
Nippon Cinema ª
Haunted by a deadly nightmare Yukie asks the Nightmare Detective for help. He hopes to find the key to his mother’s death in Yukie’s dream. The master of urban loneliness did not only create a reflexion on fear… This film is scary!
悪夢探偵２
Akumu tantei 2
Japan 2008
102 minutes
Director
Shinya TSUKAMOTO
Script
Shinya TSUKAMOTO, Hisakatsu KUROKI
Cinematography
Shinya TSUKAMOTO, Takayuki SHIDA
Music
Chu ISHIKAWA, Shinichi KAWAHARA
Production
Kaijyu Theater, Movie-Eye Entertainment
World sales
Movie-Eye Entertainment
Cast
Ryuhei MATSUDA, Yui MIURA, Hanae KAN, Hatsune MATSUSHIMA, Wako ANDO
About Shinya TSUKAMOTO
塚本晋也
Born in Tokyo in 1960, Shinya TSUKAMOTO started making 8mm short films as a teenager. After studying oil painting he worked for an ad agency and founded his own theater company, from which he recruited cast and crew for his feature debut TETSUO: THE IRON MAN (1989 / see p. 33). Films like TOKYO FIST (1995 / see p. 33), A SNAKE OF JUNE (2002), VITAL (2004 / NC ‘05) or KOTOKO (2011 / NC ’12) were celebrated on the international festival circuit. TSUKAMOTO received the Mainichi Film Award as best director and best actor for his remake of FIRES ON THE PLAIN (2014 / NC ‘15). KILLING enjoyed its 2018 world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. In 2019, he was awarded the Nippon Honor Award.