Tsumetai Chi

Shinji Aoyama

IndieLisboa 2007 •

Japan, Fiction, 1998, 109′

A loose remake of Akira Kurosawa’s classic Stray Dog (1949), An Obsession follows the story of a police detective named Sosuke who investigating the murder of a strange cult leader who may himself have been responsible for a rash of missing persons cases from the last few months. When the cult leader turns up dead, Sosuke and his partner track down the assailant fairly quickly but he’s not about to go down without a fight and Sosuke ends up taking a bullet in the line of duty.