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.

00:08:45 What happened to you?

00:10:45 "In case you do not obey the authority's decision...

00:12:44 to hold a party like this even if we don't want to.

00:13:46 Excuse me, can we go through? Excuse me.

00:15:44 Thank you very much.

00:21:02 Please don't look for me.

00:22:39 What happens to that woman now?

00:25:55 If you don't mind, please keep it.

00:32:15 I am terribly sorry.

00:34:30 I am a master of disguise who has twenty faces.

00:36:17 - Is that all you want me to do? - That's right.

00:39:51 "Dear Mr. Rampo Edogawa, I would like to see you...

00:45:48 I felt all my senses, hearing, smelling, and feeling...

00:50:08 I was experimenting with parachuting.

00:53:14 I hope you don't mind.

00:58:44 Day after day, for hours, I have to watch him from here.

01:08:49 May I come in?

01:12:09 "Where an Eidolon, named Night...

01:14:44 "being embraced by someone's voice who is calling me.

01:21:24 May I speak with you for the last time?

01:24:41 Where is the nagamochi?

01:37:20 It is all right if I keep everything inside me, isn't it?

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 line01:37:20

Production Record

DirectorKazuyoshi Okuyama

LanguageJapanese

IMDb votes625