The Mystery of Rampo

Name: The Mystery of Rampo
Director: Kazuyoshi Okuyama
Released: 1995
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Naoto Takenaka, Michiko Hada, Masahiro Motoki, Teruyuki Kagawa, Mikijirô Hira

1995 · 100 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 625 VOTES · DIR. Kazuyoshi Okuyama

Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 408 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:01:13 In Japan there is a chest called the nagamochi...

00:06:06 did not work and stayed home all day.

00:08:42 IT'S ME.

00:10:39 "The authority found that the novel...

00:12:38 thank you very much for taking time to come to the party.

00:13:40 And this is Mr. Akechi in the next series.

00:15:25 Thank you very much.

00:20:47 You haven't even introduced her yet.

00:22:22 He was suffocated to death in a nagamochi.

00:25:15 It is not for sale anyway.

00:29:45 I have to find a way out of the forest.

00:33:23 Something like this has not happened to me for a long time.

00:35:44 Yes, I have.

00:37:25 That's why I asked you to see it as soon as possible.

00:42:09 The other day...

00:47:40 Do you know her?

00:52:02 I love this painting.

00:53:32 don't oblige yourself to stay.

01:01:26 Sleeping with you every night...

01:09:38 I don't want to be on my own.

01:12:32 "From a wild weird clime, that lieth, sublime...

01:15:33 I was so occupied with this...

01:22:08 Why didn't you wait a little longer?

01:24:47 That must have been sent to Atami when she moved there.

Cast & Characters

Naoto Takenaka Edogawa Rampo Michiko Hada Shizuko Masahiro Motoki Kogorô Akechi Teruyuki Kagawa Seishi Yokomizo Mikijirô Hira Marquis Ogawara Shirô Sano Officer Ittoku Kishibe Cafe Owner Nekohachi Edoya Antique Shop Owner Jun'ichi Takagi Fujimori Charlie Yutani Driver

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed408

Dialogue density4.1 lines / min

First line00:01:13

Final line01:24:47

Production Record

DirectorKazuyoshi Okuyama

LanguageJapanese

IMDb votes625