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COLLECTION · Series · 2000

MPD Psycho

多重人格探偵サイコ

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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* 7.2 (6)CrimeDramaMysteryJapan
Directors
Takashi Miike
Creators
Takashi Miike · Eiji Otsuka
Countries
Japan
Studios
WOWOW Prime · Excellent Films · KADOKAWA Shoten · MPD Psycho Project · Pony Canyon Toskadomain Co. Ltd
Runtime
54 min/ep
Release
02/05/2000
Score
7.2 / 10 (6)
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Miniseries
Miniseries
6 episodes · 2000

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.

Episode 1. Memories of Sin/Drifting Petals
2000-05-02 · 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…

Episode 2. How to Create a World
2000-05-03 · 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…

Episode 3. Life Is a Constant Double Helix
2000-05-04 · 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…

Episode 4. The Crushed Ant
2000-05-05 · 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…

Episode 5. Coronation of the Cursed King
2000-05-06 · 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…

Episode 6. Soaring Souls and Human Bondage
2000-05-07 · 54 min

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…

Cast by season
Ren Osugi
Ren Osugi
Tooru Sasayama
Naoki Hosaka
Naoki Hosaka
Kazuhiko Amamiya / Yôsuke Kobayashi / Shinji Nishizono
Tomoko Nakajima
Tomoko Nakajima
Machi Isono
?
Sadaharu Shioda
Masaki Manabe
?
Yoshinari Anan
Kikuo Toguchi
Rieko Miura
Rieko Miura
Chizuko Honda / Chizuko Kobayashi
Lily
Lily
Yôko Yamamoto
Nae Yuuki
Nae Yuuki
Tomoyo Tanabe
Satoshi Matsuda
Satoshi Matsuda
Tatsuya Ueno
Fujiko
Fujiko
Mami Sasayama
?
Shun Satô
Saku Ooe
Satoshi Ichijo
Satoshi Ichijo
Hisashi Shimazu
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serial killerminiseriesbased on mangadissociative identity disordermultiple personality disorderbody horrorsurrealist horror
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