D-Zaka no satsujin jiken

After an opening section that promises an exploration of the relationships between art, sex and the violence that men love to inflict on women (along with the usual Japanese suggestion that women are themselves mostly craving a nice little bit of torture), this turns into an increasingly silly Sherlock Holmes-type story, replete with “word association” psychological tests and a detective who likes to lean back on his chair and touch his index fingers thoughtfully together.