The Mystery of Rampo
27/05/1995
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.
Movie Information
Masahiro Motoki
as Kogoro Akechi
Naoto Takenaka
as Edogawa Rampo
Michiko Hada
as Shizuko
Teruyuki Kagawa
as Masashi Yokomizo
Mikijiro Hira
as
Shirō Sano
as
Ittoku Kishibe
as
Nekohachi Edoya
as
Junichi Takagi
as
Kirin Kiki
as
Julie Dreyfus
as
Yoshio Harada
as
Kinji Fukasaku
as
Hiroshi Abe
as
Genjiro Arato
as
Tetsuya Bessho
as
Yu Hayami
as
Kazuya Kimura
as
Tomokazu Miura
as
Kenji Ohtsuki
as
Kōji Wakamatsu
as
