The Piercing Gaze: Memories of a Bizarre Murder (2005)

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’!!

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…