AFF Closing Night Film Announced: Shinya Tsukamoto's Nightmare Detective

Shinya Tsukamoto made his first film using grainy black-and-white 16mm filmstock, a few thousand dollars and a bunch of stuff he found in a junkyard. Now credited as the seminal “cyberpunk” movie, Tetsuo:The Iron Man sent a shock wave through the Japanese film industry and soon became a worldwide cult sensation. Since his debut, Tsukamoto has become one of the Japanese film industry’s few true independents, occasionally working as a director-for-hire in order to self-finance his personal films.

Tsukamoto’s latest “personal” film Nightmare Detective has been selected as the closing film for the Austin Film Festival. This will be the U.S. premiere (shared with Hawaii). Advance word on the film is terrific and has been described as a labor-of-love tribute to the horror serials he loved as a child. The film involves mysterious suicides and detectives who can enter people’s dreams. Tsukamoto fans have been drooling in anticipation over this film for quite some time, and this is your chance to see it before all your J-horror geek friends.

Nightmare Detective
Thursday, Octobr 25th
IMAX
10pm

Check out the trailer at the official Nightmare Detective website.