The Piercing Gaze: Memories of a Bizarre Murder
2005, Japanese. Directed by Takeshi Watanabe.
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…
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- 1h 28m
- Post-credits
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- Japanese
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- 1 January 2005
- Original title
- 射る眼 猟奇殺人の記憶
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The Piercing Gaze: Memories of a Bizarre Murder isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 2005. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Piercing Gaze: Memories of a Bizarre Murder?
The Piercing Gaze: Memories of a Bizarre Murder (2005) was directed by Takeshi Watanabe and stars Hiroki Matsukata, Asuka Shibuya, Erika Mabuchi.