Between 22 August 1988 and 23 July 1989, the date of his arrest, Tsutomu Miyazaki killed four girls aged 4 to 7 years old and performed necrophilia and cannibalism on their bodies under the lens of his camera. Nicknamed the “killer otaku” because of his compulsive attraction for anime, manga and extreme cinema, he taunted the families of his victims by sending them the remains of their children.
To trace the diary of this sadistic serial killer, Alexandre Bodécot has probed Miyazaki’s tortured psyche for months, studying psychiatrists’ reports, transcripts of his trial but also his diary and notes written in prison. Rat-Man, named after his killer alter ego, offers you a deep dive into the mind of one of Japan’s most infamous and intriguing serial killers.
