MPD Psycho (full title Multiple Personality Detective Psycho – Kazuhiko Amamiya Returns) is a 2000 Japanese six-episode horror crime television series based on the manga of the same name and directed by Takashi Miike. It originally aired on 2 May 2000. It has a surrealist bent, and, according to Jim Harper, the author of Flowers from Hell, "bears little similarity to the average made-for-TV detective thriller".
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| - MPD Psycho (miniserie televisiva) (it)
- MPD Psycho (miniseries) (en)
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| - MPD Psycho (多重人格探偵サイコ MPD PSYCHO Tajuu jinkaku tantei saiko - Amamiya Kazuhiko no kikan?) è una miniserie televisiva del 2000, diretta da Takashi Miike, tratta dall'omonimo manga scritto da e disegnato da Shōu Tajima nel 1997. È stata trasmessa dall'emittente televisiva satellitare WOWOW, quindi presentata nel 2003 al Courmayeur Film Festival. In Italia è stata trasmessa dal canale satellitare Zone Fantasy ed è stata distribuita - censurata da apposite toppe di pixel - in DVD dalla Dolmen. La miniserie è stata realizzata interamente in digitale. (it)
- MPD Psycho (full title Multiple Personality Detective Psycho – Kazuhiko Amamiya Returns) is a 2000 Japanese six-episode horror crime television series based on the manga of the same name and directed by Takashi Miike. It originally aired on 2 May 2000. It has a surrealist bent, and, according to Jim Harper, the author of Flowers from Hell, "bears little similarity to the average made-for-TV detective thriller". (en)
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| - 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. (en)
- 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. (en)
- A sadistic criminal is turning his victims into human flower pots. Detective Amamiya Kazuhiko is called out of early retirement to work on 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. (en)
- 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. (en)
- 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. (en)
- 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. (en)
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| - Multiple Personality Detective Psycho – Kazuhiko Amamiya Returns (en)
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| - Multiple Personality Detective Psycho by Eiji Ōtsuka (en)
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| - Pony Canyon (en)
- Excellent Film (en)
- Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co. (en)
- MPD Psycho Project (en)
- Toskadomain Co. Ltd (en)
- WoWow (en)
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| - Naoki Abe (en)
- Toshihiro Satô (en)
- Yoshihisa Nakagawa (en)
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