Tetsuo (1989)

 

Akumu tantei (2006)

Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares.

Something like a Japanese A Nighmare on Elm Street, so it's a more mature cast and setting, but a more incoherent plot; the movie is marked by the director's visual inventiveness and darkness, but he has made better efforts.

Kotoko (2011)

The story of a single mother who suffers from double vision; caring for her baby is a nerve-wrecking task that eventually leads her to a nervous breakdownnad so she is suspected of being a child abuser when things get out of control and her baby is taken away.

Idiosyncratic and challenging study of a disintegrating mind is at times gut-wrenching and quite violent; Cocco's performace is suprisingly strong and rousing and central to the whole story.