Tokyo Psycho

Yumiko is a pretty young girl faced with the increasingly daunting prospect of being single after her recent split with her boyfriend and now her flatmate, Miko’s, engagement. But after some strange things start occurring, she realises that being single might not be the worst that could happen to her. She starts receiving anonymous letters of marriage proposal featuring sick pictures of her as a child and covered in blood and, understandably, starts to become more than a little concern. When it turns out that her admirer is actually an old classmate from school, Igumi, her worries are not alleviated in the slightest. She gets her friend Miko to look into the case and they find out that Igumi used to live nearby, so they foolishly decide to go and investigate.

Well, what can I say? If you are an avid fan of this particular genre then I wouldn’t be surprised if you chose to pick this up—I’m sure you would enjoy it. But for fans of slightly bigger budget, more stylish, coherent works then I would recommend you look elsewhere. And even if you are tempted — be warned — the German subtitling is so bad that it could ruin the entire movie for you just like it did me.