The Piercing Gaze: Memories of a Bizarre Murder

Original title: 射る眼猟奇殺人の記憶

"A shocking psychological horror film in which a detective torn between a series of bizarre serial murders and past traumas finds a mysterious girl possessing the ability known as ‘The Piercing Gaze’!!"

2005 88 min Japanese Takeshi Watanabe

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Overview

One day, Shu, a runaway girl, turns up at Miyabe’s ramshackle detective agency. Claiming to be able to read people’s minds, Shu soon begins to display her mysterious powers. Around the same time, a series of bizarre, gruesome murders targeting only women begins to occur. The dismembered, brutally murdered bodies bear the letter ‘R’ carved into them…　　