Theres blood, dark nights and darker morals, just as any noirish drama ought to have. Hisayasu satos version of caterpillar, directed for the 2005 horror anthology rampo noir. A trailor for the 2006 movie rampo jigoku, including a segment directed by the amazing. Rampo noir on dvd 796019794695 from genius products. The conclusion of the research is that the adaptation processes. Find more information about rampo noir movie on crunchyroll.
Mirror hell when a series of women are discovered with their faces burnt and skulls charred, a young detective investigates, discovering that a unique hand mirror is always found at the scene. Rent rampo noir 2005 starring tadanobu asano and hanae kan on dvd and bluray. I hereby consent to these data being processed in accordance with the new gdpr general data protection regulation eu regulation 2016679. I strongly suggest checking out rampo noir, if youve not seen it yet, based on his work. I have read the privacy statement on regarding how to my personal date will be collected through this website. Rent the mystery of rampo 1995 starring masahiro motoki and naoto takenaka on dvd and bluray. Four auteur directors provide a shocking compilation of short films each stylistically different and. Here a group of four different directors have been brought together to adapt three stories as well as a wraparound segment. Tadanobu asano, yuko daike, chisako hara, masami horiuchi. Im returning to my annual film noir phase and its got me thinking, while cc does have some stellar fn in the library i still feel like this is one genre that cc is lacking in a little bit. May 01, 2012 2016s good friday procession of witness and stations of the cross in hastings old town. Programmer of the japanese and world cinema sections of raindance film festival between 20059 and.
With this book, too, i hurriedly completed this ritual and then started to read it. 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. If you like rampo noir you are looking for erotic, scary and psychological movies about with obsession, fascism, anthology, crimes, mars, split personality and ghost themes of fantasy and horror genre shot in japan. He was a crime mystery writer and many people compared his works to edgar allen poe. Though hes not credited, this film seems to be based on a story by edogawa rampo, which has previously been adapted in the anthology film rampo noir. Rampo noir rampo jigoku revitalized the japanese horror genre and showed the world there was more than glitchy apparitions and cheap setups to scare and outgross audiences. Rampo noir is an anthology film based around the work of famous japanese writer edogawa rampo. Noir loosely adapts four of rampo s stories for film, each by a different director, and while the movie may be a festival of the bizarre and the macabre, its not haphazard. Okuyama and yuhei enoki had an idea not a terribly original one, but a good one nonetheless what if one of edogawas stories actually started coming true. Nov 20, 2015 film noir was strongly influenced by german expressionism, a style that fritz lang excelled in prior to the noir movement. Suguru takeuchi, akio satsukawa, atsushi kaneko, rampo edogawa, shiro yumeno.
Jasper h sharp the university of sheffield academia. Rampo noir is a film directed by akio jissoji, atsushi kaneko. Film noir movies, late 1930s through the 1950s, plus noirish tv detective shows. Im not really here to debate the movie but, to ask about the warning in the beginning. Mars canal within absolute silence, a naked man wanders through a dark and depressing landscape recalling the excruciating details of his last encounter with his former lover. Acclaimed mv director takeuchi suguru begins proceedings with mars canal, which sees a naked man asano tadanobu collapse at the edge of a lake that. He took a few years off from directing until the 2005 short film compilation, rampo noir. The mystery of rampo takes a speculative peak inside the writers mind during the time when his work was increasingly falling foul of the censors. Oct 03, 2001 rampo was a man who felt at odds with the times and departed from it by creating his own world, okuyama stated at the time of the film s release.
Jake gyllenhaal stars as an antihero loner and sociopath who enters the world of freelance crime photography. A trailer for rampo noir, an anthology of films based on stories by one of my favorite japanese writers, edogawa rampo a homonym for the japanese pronunciation of edgar allen poe. Nov 05, 2005 this film, an adaptation of four really three short stories penned by edogawa rampo, is unfortunately more stomachchurning than it is stylish. But films as early as fritz langs 1931 m are discussed in noir terms, and the aesthetic persists, if only in homage or parody, as in the obvious noir takeoff sin city. Directors suguru takeuchi, akio jissoji, hisayasu sato, and atsushi kaneko team to adapt four stories by acclaimed early20th century japanese mystery novelist taro hirai, who penned his. The exact parameters of film noir are still up for debate some argue that true noir films were made during a specific period, the postworld war ii 1940s to around 1958, labeling films made before and after proto and neonoir respectively, while others argue film noir is more of a style or mood than a genre. Each director brings a distinctive style to the table and the whole thing is just fascinatingly weird, for lack of a more specific word. Because edogawa was a crime writer, youve basically got a hardboiled mystery already set up. Film noir emerged out of a nexus of american sociopolitical crises, including the great depression, world war ii, and the cold war. Because the genre is often quite niche i will add films that would be considered underrated by the general public rather than films that noir fans would consider underrated. However, after burning his drafts, his publisher shows him a newspaper with an account of events just like his forbidden. Everything in it ultimately forms part of a whole, even if its a long wait to see how it all fits together.
Mars canal kasei no unga directed by suguru takeuchi, mirror hell kagami jigoku directed by akio jissoji, caterpillar imomushi directed. Film noir is a term used to describe crime drama movies from hollywood that are often focused on sex, crime, and corruption. Rampo noir is an omnibus comprising of four short films based upon stories by edogawa rampo, japans foremost proponent of the erotic grotesque or eroguro genre and founder of the japan mystery writers club. In both capacities, rampos work helped to develop japanese mystery fiction into a. University of chicago east asian languages and civilizations media library. Filmnoir perhaps the narrowest category of the underrated series and also one of the toughest to accurately define. Mar 04, 2007 and rampo noir will leave you on that note with all the fully fledged, unsteady queasiness of a good horror flick, with none of the formula and all of the chills. Rampo noir official trailer japanese horror thriller.
The viewer will get to see their favorite tales come to life including mars canal and mirror hell. This is one film thats definitely not for the squeamish. Unlike wakamatsus relatively faithful retelling of the rampo text, satos film focuses tightly on the highly eroticized, bdsmflavoured. What are some of the more popular and wellknown film noir. The film s strongly expressionistic direction skillfully combines a variety of media animation, computergenerated imagery, grainy blackandwhite fast film. Jul 07, 2017 le film the mystery of rampo 1994 vostfr admin 20170707t17. Programmer for the east and south sections, screening rampo noir japan, richard stanleys dust devil. Classic film noir in the criterion collection cinema cities. Film noir simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Being a bit of a rampo buff ive knocked a star off the rating as i would have loved to have seen the films staged in period 1920s 1930s, but nevertheless each film succeeds in creating a timeless ambience well suited to the mans work.
Rampo edogawa is one of the japanese mystery writers to make it over the ocean his pseudonym is a nipponization of edgar allan poe. Based on stories by taro hirai, each seg in this portmanteau entry is. Noir is a canadian drama film, directed by yves christian fournier and released in 2015. Rampo noir is an interesting entry in the modern jhorror fad. Rampo noir received an r15 certificate back in japan, though i doubt other countries censors are going to be quite. When the last sword is drawn, hisayasu sato rampo noir and masayuki suo shall we dance. Face it, the meandering script is saved by frank fentons dialogue. Sex, violence and politics japanese style closeup film centre. This series brings the works of edogawa rampo to life. Four auteur directors provide a shocking, grotesque compilation of short films each stylistically different and based on the great japanese mystery writer, edogawa rampo. Like rampo noir, the only other film based on a rampo edogawa novel that i have seen so far, watcher in the attic is a thoroughly tedious and pretentious arthouse affair that, despite its salacious subject matter manages to bore more than it excites. Although it does deal with some extreme themes and has horror elements, i wouldnt classify it as either. It tells the story of a naked man who wanders through a depressing and desolate landscape recalling memories of his former lover. As a fan of the kodakawa horror series i was expecting more of the same with my purchase of rampo noir.
The term film noir comes from the french term for black film or dark film. Rampo noir is an anthology that manages to keep things highly varied while remaining cohesive although the third part drags a little, especially since its so offputting. If you like rampo noir you are looking for erotic, scary and psychological movies about with obsession, fascism, anthology, crimes, mars, split personality and ghost. One of my alltime favorite creepy stories is the human chair by edogawa rampo. Feb 25, 2014 alain silver, editor of the film noir reader, dates the classic era of film noir to a fifteen year span from you only live once 1937 to where danger lives 1952. His film m another criterion title was one of the early 1930s films that inspired the overall tone of the cynical films to come in the postwar period.
Overview of mystery of rampo, the, 1994, directed by kazuyoshi okuyama, with masahiro motoki, naoto takenaka, michiko hada, at turner classic movies. Rampo appears as a peculiar neo noir melodrama of solemn atmosphere, elaborate aesthetics and, in its second half, twisted eroticism and aristocratic decadence. The stories have all been adapted from the works of edogawa rampo, a celebrated japanese horrorthriller writer of. Rampo noir 2005 is a japanese arthouse, horror film, based on the works kagamijigoku the hell of mirrors 1926, mushi insect 1929, imomushi the caterpillar 1929, and kasei no unga the martian canals 1926 by edogawa rampo. With naoto takenaka, michiko hada, masahiro motoki, teruyuki kagawa. All four of these chilling tales star asano tadanobu the taste of tea, ichi the. After all, the generation of viewers won over by nakatas films has long grown up or tuned over to the hollywood remakes, and with prices of. A trailor for the 2006 movie rampo jigoku, including a segment directed by the amazing hisayasu sato. Nafisbelmonts rating of the film rampo noir nafisbelmont remarkable. Aug 20, 2015 a vivid adaptation of the grotesque and erotic short stories of edogawa rampo, often referred to as the japanese edgar allen poe, starring an ensemble cast lead by the versatile asano tadanobu and.
A peep into the pornographic underworld of the pink film. It presented the underbelly of the traditionally optimistic and utopian american dream and drew upon numerous cultural influences, such as german expressionism, american hardboiled fiction, french poetic realism of the 1930s, tabloid journalism, italian. Rent rampo noir 2005 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. Unfortunately these aspects may well prove problematic in getting the film screened more widely, because it also presents us with some pretty strong images to take home, all the more shocking in a film of this budget and scale. Rampo edogawa short stories as edogawa ranpo, atsushi kaneko screenplay for mushi 3 more. Masao adachi has in recent years returned to japan and just completed his. As the film progresses, fantasy and reality intermingle in a tale that draws heavily on influences from poe and stokers dracula. The film all togeteher is just weak and the transformation effects are just pittiful, and the fact that they try and reenact the famous lipstick scene from the orginal would have been a nice nod to the. Four auteurs provide a shocking compilation of short films each stylistically different and based on the masterpieces of the great japanese. Le film the mystery of rampo 1994 vostfr film complet. Given the uniform elegance of rampo noir s composition and design, that makes the ick factor pretty high. Four auteur directors provide a shocking, grotesque compilation of short films each stylistically different and based on the great. Coming attractions for you 2020s most anticipated movies. Rampo noir sadism triumphs over atmosphere in rampo noir, a colorful but overarty quartet of japanese horror yarns.
Rampo, like his namesake, frequently wrote about horrific things so this isnt an inappropriate focus. May 22, 2014 a vivid adaptation of the grotesque and erotic short stories of edogawa rampo, often referred to as the japanese edgar allen poe, starring an ensemble cast lead by the versatile asano tadanobu and. He has contributed liner notes for numerous dvd releases, edited and authored over 150 subtitle scripts, and written for periodicals such as japanese fantasy film. Not horror,more of an arthouse film,experimental,dark,feliniesque shorts. Japanese sf and englishlanguage original sf haikasoru. Keigo kasuya returns home from the second sinojapanese war in 1940 a quadruple amputee no arms, no legs without the ability to speak. Rent the mystery of rampo 1995 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. Nightmare ride without meaning, or something with deeper, darker connotations, this anthology has far more in common with tsukamoto than it does with nakata. Film noir was originally a term used by french critics to describe hollywood movies of the postwar 1940s era up through the 1950s that portray a darker perspective upon life than was standard in classical hollywood films and concentrate upon human depravity, failure, and despair. In that light, rampo noir is a daring exploration of the horror genre, but lets be clear, its also a journey that not all of us may be willing to take. This horror anthology takes its cue from the short fiction of writer taro hirai, better known by his nomme du plume edogawa rampo wordplay on the name of legendary writer edgar allan poe. He became engrossed in hardboiled fiction, western film and film noir in his. His work has been turned into a horror anthology film rampo noir, and the only readily available english translation of his work for a while was the inclusion of the human chair in the my favorite horror story anthology.
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