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.
Directed By
Kazuyoshi OkuyamaWritten By
Kazuyoshi Okuyama, Yuhei EnokiStudio
Daiwa Building, Daiwa Securities Group, Cast of Rampo
Masahiro MotokiKogoro Akechi
Naoto TakenakaEdogawa Rampo
Michiko HadaShizuko
Teruyuki KagawaMasashi Yokomizo
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