The Mystery of Rampo
- Released on
- Runtime
- 100 mins
Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts, his publisher shows him a newspaper with an account of events just like his forbidden story. As the film progresses, fantasy and reality intermingle in a tale that draws heavily on influences from Poe and Stoker's Dracula. The film's strongly Expressionistic direction skillfully combines a variety of media (animation, computer-generated imagery, grainy black-and-white fast film stock, color negatives) for artistic effect.
Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts, his publisher shows him a newspaper with an account of events just like his forbidden story. As the film progresses, fantasy and reality intermingle in a tale that draws heavily on influences from Poe and Stoker's Dracula. The film's strongly Expressionistic direction skillfully combines a variety of media (animation, computer-generated imagery, grainy black-and-white fast film stock, color negatives) for artistic effect.
Cast
- Masahiro Motoki
- Naoto Takenaka
- Michiko Hada
- Teruyuki Kagawa
- Mikijiro Hira
- Shirō Sano
- Ittoku Kishibe
- Nekohachi Edoya
- Junichi Takagi
- Kirin Kiki
- Julie Dreyfus
- Yoshio Harada
- Kinji Fukasaku
- Hiroshi Abe
- Genjiro Arato
- Tetsuya Bessho
- Yu Hayami
- Kazuya Kimura
- Tomokazu Miura
- Kenji Ohtsuki
- Kōji Wakamatsu
Director
- Kazuyoshi Okuyama
