MPD Psycho (Multiple Personality Detective)

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Studio: Adness
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Miike brings his brand back to TV

MPD Psycho: The Complete Miniseries
Starring: Mpd-Psycho Complete Mini Series Box Set
Manufacturer: Bci / Eclipse
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Masters of Horror - Imprint
Kazuo Umezz's Horror Theater: Six Dark Tales to Make You Cringe
Lady Vengeance
Audition (Uncut Special Edition)
Pulse

ASIN: B000I0QLSW
Release Date: 2006-10-10

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Miike brings his brand back to TV.......2006-11-03

I have been waiting for the complete series for a while now and this set does not dissapoint.
Yes it's censored but it's a TV series so it 's not totally unexpected but it's still worth the watch.

Schizophrenia, C-sections, spontanious combustion, barcodes on eyes and more.

Hard to follow but worth the effort. Amusing, shocking and most of all entertaining.

X-Files+CSI with a Miike flare.

MPD Psycho (Multiple Personality Detective)

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it was ok just very slow paced.........
dont just watch the movies
A disappointment
Miike at his weirdest
Strange movie

MPD Psycho (Multiple Personality Detective)
Starring: Ren Osugi , Tomoko Nakajima , and Naoki Hosaka
Director: Takashi Miike
Manufacturer: Adness
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MPD Psycho 2
MPD Psycho III
Gozu
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Audition (Uncut Special Edition)

ASIN: B00080ETS6
Release Date: 2005-05-24

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it was ok just very slow paced................2007-06-24

If you want to watch the series you need to get all 6 episodes. It starts out with a rather simple theme then gets more complex as the relationships between the characters are examined and their pasts revealed. Mamaya (I am not sure if it is spelled correct, it has been a while since i have watched the series) was a detective until his wife was killed then he developed a second personality which took over until his wife's killer was caught. Then he reverted back to his original personality and remarried and helps out in a coffee shop with his new wife. When a new serial killer strikes turning the heads of people into flower pots (cutting the skull in half and sticking a flower in the brain)and Mamaya is back on the case having reverted back to the second personality. It turns out the serial killer is a friend of Mamaya and infact, they used to share the same body. There are certain people who have barcodes on their eyeballs and they have implanted transmitters which allow them to receive other personalities. This is how Mamaya and the serial killer shared the same body. This was apparently all started by a cult leader named Lucy Moonstone. There is alot more to it which is why I say all 6 episodes need to be watched but it does wrap up nicely. The only issue I have with it is the pace........it is very slow at times.

dont just watch the movies.......2005-07-09

have you read the manga MPD-Psycho?
this movie is originally based on the manga [japanese comic book]
the manga itself is a masterpiece
so i think you shouldn't comment about the story just by watching the movie only
grab the manga too!

A disappointment.......2005-06-01

The only reason I'm not rating this lower than three stars is because it's incomplete -- it's the first volume of I-don't-know-how-many it will take to collect what is apparently an entire Japanese TV series. Of course, you don't really know (or anyway, I didn't know) going in that it IS incomplete, so frustration mounts as the disc gets closer and closer to the end of its run time without showing any signs of making sense anytime soon. Which, not to spoil anything, it doesn't even start to by the time you're finished.

The plot seems to be as follows: In a vaguely fascistic alternate history version of contemporary Japan (that this is alternate history is only hinted at, but it feels like something that'll be important later on in the series), a homicide detective develops a split personality when a serial murderer kills his wife. The cop's alternate personality kills the serial killer, and the cop reverts back to his former self, albeit without memory of several years of his life (including his marriage). His superiors keep covert tabs on him to make sure he's all right, but are content to let him lead a mundane but happy life as a retired police officer until another killer pops up with the same MO. When the detective's current wife goes missing, he returns to his alternate personality and sets out to track down and kill the serial killer -- again.

All of which sounds promising (if a little cliche), but a whole lot of weird science fiction is thrown into the mix -- people with barcodes stamped on their eyes, souls that reach out through cell phones and the internet to take possession of those unlucky enough to be on the other side of the connection, etc. -- and none of it really seems to add up to anything by the time you've lost two hours of your life watching this. Again, had I realized going in that this was FAR from complete I might not have developed a migraine trying to figure out what in the hell is going on in this program...but I also probably would have waited until the whole series had been released to watch it. As you probably should, too.

Fans of director Takashi Miike will be stunned to see something of his that sports the kind of slick production values on display here. But Miike seems to be reining himself in a little, too -- or, quite possibly, the TV production company he was working for did the reining in for him. It's certainly way more out there than anything you'd ever see on American TV, maybe including HBO productions, but it's neither as gleefully irreverent as Ichi the Killer nor as flatout scary as Audition. Additionally -- appallingly -- shots of nudity and what look like some spectacular gore scenes are artfully FUZZED OUT, which I imagine is either a TV concession (sorry, kids!) or evidence that I rented a butchered version. I'm guessing it's the former, since the fuzziness (as opposed to the simple removal of scenes)implies Miike had a hand in it, but either way, it's obnoxious and distracting. Not to mention condescending -- I'll make up my own mind about what I choose to look at, thank you very much.

I'll definitely RENT -- not buy -- the second volume when it's released, just out of curiosity, but those curious about Miike would be much better advised to check out his theatrical films first. MPD Psycho is not without merit, but it's certainly not representative of his best work.

Miike at his weirdest.......2005-05-29

Bear in mind first that these are the first two episodes of a 6 part TV series, so don't expect anything like closure from this disc by itself. Unfortunately, Adness aren't planning to release the 2nd disc until the end of August! Given the complexity and strangeness of the series, I really think all 6 episodes need to be watched together, so I can't really recommend purchasing the disc by itself.

Strange movie.......2005-05-26

First off-I'm a big fan of Asian movies and the horror movies are typically well done-but this movie left me wondering what I'd just watched when it was finished. A psycho has decided that women want to be pretty like flowers-so he conceives a way of turning them into human flower pots-the remainder of the story is so convoluted--I'm not sure what it was about!
As much as I like Asian horor movies--I'd recommend staying away from this one. Recent releases like "Koma" and "A Tale of Two Sisters" are much better movies than this oddity!

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MPD Psycho 2
Starring: Ren Osugi , Tomoko Nakajima , Naoki Hosaka , Rieko Miura , and Nae Yuki
Manufacturer: Adness
ProductGroup: DVD
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MPD Psycho III
MPD Psycho (Multiple Personality Detective)
Audition (Uncut Special Edition)
One Missed Call
Izo (Special Edition)

ASIN: B0009IW8BC
Release Date: 2005-08-30

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MPD Psycho III
Starring: Hosaka , and Osugi
Manufacturer: Adness
ProductGroup: DVD
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MPD Psycho 2
MPD Psycho (Multiple Personality Detective)
Izo (Special Edition)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
The Emilio Miraglia Killer Queen Box Set

ASIN: B000A1IN80
Release Date: 2005-10-18

Description

CORONATION OF THE CURSED KING 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. SOARING SOULS AND HUMAN BONDAGE 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 the baby stealer to a remote cabin in a snowstorm for a final showdown to recover his own missing child.

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