A subtitled trailer for Shinya Tsukamoto‘s Nightmare Detective 2 popped up on YouTube yesterday. I have no idea where, why, or how this originated (maybe a promo from Cannes) but it looks to be a real corker. This time around Nightmare Detective Kyoichi Kagenuma (Ryuhei Matsuda) reluctantly helps a school girl named Yukie who is convinced her next nightmare about a former classmate will kill her in the same way it killed her friends. Currently there’s no solid release date and the official website isn’t live yet, but I’m sure more will be coming out very soon. Check out the aspect ratio-adjusted trailer after the break.

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Shinya Tsukamoto‘s Nightmare Detective 2 starring Ryuhei Matsuda. Slated for release in 2008. For the Japanese trailer, see this link.

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The official website for Takahisa Zeze‘s Pandemic (Kansen Rettou) went live today and there have been all sorts of new developments since the movie was first announced at the beginning of the year. The release date has been officially set at January 17, 2009. Some new cast additions include Ryoko Kuninaka as a nurse named Takako, Yuji Tanaka as Takako’s husband, Chizuru Ikewaki as the wife of the first infected patient, Takanori Takeyama as a freelance virus researcher, Koichi Sato as an ER doctor, and Tatsuya Fuji as a university professor and expert on the influenza virus.

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An ad exec named Goda (Shinya Tsukamoto) is mired in depression after his girlfriend’s suicide and becomes obsessed with obtaining the same model of gun she shot herself with. In his search he crosses paths with a street gang who beat him senseless, but he’s slowly becoming preoccupied with one of their members, Chisato (Kirina Mano). Once he finally finds the gun he was looking for, he inexplicably decides to protect the gang that beat him up.

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Based on a 1997 television drama, Bayside Shakedown begins as a corpse is found floating in the river near Bayside Precinct. Not only that, but their own commissioner has been kidnapped. To complicate matters, The Metropolitan Police Department gets put in charge of the case over the local cops, and refuse to clue them in on any of the details of their investigation. But Aoshima (Yuji Oda) will have none of that, and forces himself into the fray; much to the chagrin of the MPD. Luckily for Aoshima, his friend Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is heading the MPD investigation, and had promised Aoshima long ago that he would do his best to use his position in the MPD to make things easier for beat cops—but will he keep his word? You can find the teaser here.

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