Rampo Noir (Rampo jigoku) (2005)

6.9	Listal rating
6.5	IMDB rating

Directed by (View all)

Suguru Takeuchi

Hisayasu Sato

Starring (View all)

Tadanobu Asano

Private detective Kogorô Akechi

Yûko Daike

Chisako Hara

Masami Horiuchi

(story Imomushi)

Tarô Hirai

Written by (View all)

Rampo Edogawa

short stories

Atsushi Kaneko

screenplay for Mushi

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Surreal and disturbing

5 years, 1 month ago at Mar 25 1:10

Hexenkult

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Great Japanese film, based on the macabre short stories of Edogawa Rampo (known as the Japanese Edgar Allan Poe). It's an anthology consisting of 4 segments. The first segment is "Kasei no Unga (Mars Canal)" and it's only about 7 minutes long; but it's a very surreal 7 minutes and a nice way to open the anthology. A naked man (Tadanobu Asano) staggers along a bleak landscape and comes upon a pool ... read more

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Release date : 5 November 2005

Japan (2), 2005 (2), East Asia (1), 2000s (1), Horror (1), Surrealism (1), Edogawa Rampo (1), Asian (1), Japanese (1), Based On Short Story (1), Adaptation (1), Anthology (1)

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Hexenkult posted a review 5 years, 1 month ago

Surreal and disturbing

“Great Japanese film, based on the macabre short stories of Edogawa Rampo (known as the Japanese Edgar Allan Poe). It's an anthology consisting of 4 segments. The first segment is "Kasei no Unga (Mars Canal)" and it's only about 7 minutes long; but it's a very surreal 7 minutes and a nice way to open the anthology. A naked man (Tadanobu Asano) staggers along a bleak landscape and comes upon a pool of water where he sees the reflection of a woman (and I'll leave it there because this is really a conceptual piece left up to the individual viewer's interpretation). This segment makes great use of sound and the absence of sound. Up next is "Kagami Jigoku (Mirror Hell)" and it definitely brings the noir mystery element (as well as some S&M kinkiness). Private detective Kogoro Akechi (played by T” read more