The Trap
Director: Kaizo Hayashi
1996 / 106min / 4K DCP
An outbreak of mysterious murders has Yokohama in the chill grip of fear, and only one man, private eye Maiku Hama (Masatoshi Nagase)—here in his final Hiyashi-helmed adventure, newly restored for the trilogy’s 30th anniversary—can bring the killing to a stop… that is, if mounting evidence pointing to him as the culprit doesn’t land him in the stir first. Something like a postmodern Japanese spin on the giallo thriller, replete with dream-logic plot twists and telekinesis, the climactic Hama whodunnit is easily the bleakest film in the trilogy, though not without its leavening moments of gallows humor, and features bravura work from Nagase, tasked with playing not one but two key roles.
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