SeriesPsychological Body Horror Splatter & Gore

MPD Psycho2000

Name: MPD Psycho
Genre: Psychological, Body Horror, Splatter & Gore, Supernatural
Released: 2000-05-02
Rating: 6.7

“Malice spreads like disease”

Created by Takashi Miike, Eiji Otsuka

6.7

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Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 6.8TMDB 7.2

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Year

2000

Seasons

Network

WOWOW Prime

Status

Ended

The premise

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.

Horror Vault's take

From provocateur director Takashi Miike comes this six-part Japanese surrealist horror miniseries that plunges deep into the shattered psyche of a homicide detective undone by unimaginable personal tragedy. When Kazuhiko Amamiya — one of several identities fighting for control of the same body — takes up the hunt for a monstrous serial killer, the line between investigator and monster grows dangerously blurred. Adapted from Eiji Ōtsuka's manga, the series combines lurid crime procedural with hallucinatory imagery and visceral body horror that pushes well past conventional genre boundaries. Viewers should brace themselves: this is Miike operating at his most uncompromising.

Content: Graphic Violence, Body Horror, Disturbing Imagery, Depictions Of Dissociative Identity Disorder, Strong Themes Of Trauma And Murder

Episode Guide

· 5h 28m total· May 2000 → May 2000

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S1.E1 · Memories of Sin/Drifting PetalsPremiere
May 2, 2000 · 57 min
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 mysteriou
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S1.E2 · How to Create a World
May 3, 2000 · 55 min
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 sur
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S1.E3 · Life Is a Constant Double Helix
May 4, 2000 · 54 min
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 wh
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S1.E4 · The Crushed Ant
May 5, 2000 · 54 min
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 mor
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S1.E5 · Coronation of the Cursed King
May 6, 2000 · 54 min
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 hos