Drama Thriller Romance
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 Okuyama
Written by
Kazuyoshi Okuyama, Yuhei Enoki
Hiroshi Abe
Teruyuki Kagawa
Masashi Yokomizo
Naoto Takenaka
Edogawa Rampo
Kirin Kiki
Tomokazu Miura
Ittoku Kishibe
Shirō Sano
Mikijiro Hira
Yoshio Harada
Masahiro Motoki
Kogoro Akechi
Tetsuya Bessho
Julie Dreyfus
Michiko Hada
Shizuko
Kazuya Kimura
Kenji Ohtsuki
Genjiro Arato
Nekohachi Edoya
Junichi Takagi
Yu Hayami
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