xHalf Suicide Club half Nightmare on Elm Street, 2006's Nightmare Detective (Akumu Tantei) falls squarely into the could-have-been-great column for cumulative reasons: it's essentially a Hitomi vehicle, it has a couple too many false endings, it doesn't seem to know whether it wants to be a horror/thriller or psychological drama, as well as a few other gripes which surround the level of acting—in particular, Hitomi's. By the by, she may be Jennifer Aniston's doppelganger. Just saying.
In fact, the entire cast is semi-dreadful save for the prolific writer/actor/director himself, Shinya Tsukamoto (Bullet Ballet, A Snake of June, Vital, Tetsuo: The Iron Man)—he plays the nameless threat dubbed "0", a Krueger-like murderer who 'takes possession' of suicidal people who phone a number looking for a companion to die with. That being said, his role, by comparison, plays somewhat avant garde in places so there's a contrast which sets itself apart.
There isn't much more to say about this movie, really. It did strike me how it becomes a movie of layers, as in layers of sleep and memory, much like a certain and current Christopher Nolan film - although it would be quite a feat to make a correlation between the two. I'm not saying what you may think I'm saying. In any event, Nightmare Detective has it's fans; I wouldn't necessarily consider myself one.
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