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The Mystery of Rampo

RAMPO 奥山バージョン

1994 1 h 40 min
71%
Audience score7 votes on TMDB

“So provocative the censors banned it. So powerful it came true.”

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.

Director
奥山和由
Screenplay
奥山和由
Screenplay
榎祐平
Status
Released
Release date
25/06/1994
Original language
Japanese

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