Original title: Ranpo jigoku
Year: 2005
Country: Japan
Region code: B
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 5027035027180
Image: 1.85:1 (1080p)
HDR: -
Audio: Japanese - Original Lossless Stereo
Subtitles: English
Rating: -
Genre: Horror
Cast: Tadanobu Asano, Ryuhei Matsuda
Director: Suguru Takeuchi, Akio Jissoji, Atsushi Kaneko, Hisayasu Sa to
Synopsis:
Four filmmakers from completely different backgrounds bring their radically personal takes to the stories of Japan's celebrated master of the macabre, Edogawa Rampo (Horrors of Malformed Men, Blind Beast).
In “Mars's Canal,” by music video director and visual artist Suguru Takeuchi, a lone man encounters the other side of his psyche beyond the reflective surface of a circular pond set in a desolate landscape. Japanese New Wave auteur and longtime director of the Ultraman series Akio Jissoji (This Transient Life, Mandala) harnesses his distinctive stylistic sheen in his story of a mad mirror maker, “Mirror Hell.” “Caterpillar” sees the singular vision of cult director Hisayasu Sato (The Bedroom, Naked Blood) at its most grotesque, in his portrait of a wounded war veteran who returns from the frontline as little more than a bloody torso, helpless to defend himself against the increasingly perverted caprices of an embittered wife. Finally, a famous actor is subjected to the obsessive attentions of his limo driver in “Crawling Bugs,” the directorial debut of internationally acclaimed manga artist Atsushi Kaneko (Bambi and Her Pink Gun).
Produced by the same team behind Ichi the Killer and Uzumaki, and with a cast featuring some of Japan's top stars, including Tadanobu Asano (Maboroshi, Silence) and Ryuhei Matsuda (Blue Spring, Gohatto), Rampo Noir is a stylistic tour-de- force that vividly evokes the “erotic grotesque” worlds created by Japan's pioneering proponent of horror and mystery fiction.
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