I don't know if it's just me, but i think that the devil made them do it.

Few minutes in and honestly when I got to know the killer is using hypnosis shit to make them kill people, I was like I have seen this many times. But Kurosawa proved me absolutely wrong as the movie slowly progressed into something so deep and so existential, it’s almost horrifying to say the least. Brilliantly directed long take scenes set the film’s atmosphere so well and so detailed yet it’s not explicitly detailed as in explaining everything. Some of the dialogues though was so terrifyingly thought provoking that made me think, we as a people maybe morally right but expansion of one self maybe similar to even a serial killer. The killer even says “All the things that used to be inside me...now they're all outside”. He’s just seeing himself in all of the victims and their problems. He just takes them to another level under hypnotic suggestion and makes them kill people. Movie simply…

Who are you ?

Mesmerising transition of detective takabe

the most complex thing I've ever witnessed.

5/100 watch a random film from your watchlist cure. i have been a big fan of movies taking a relatively simple structure (detective looking for killer) and bending it and making it unique in ways never done before, and kiyoshi kurosawa does an incredible job at it. i wouldve loved the movie a lot as is but the psychological horror of it all added the reddest, the most juiciest cherry on top. some of the best usage of darkness and camera movement i have ever seen. i loved this movie.