Rampo

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William L 04/29/2022 Essentially the bargain-bin version of Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, adapted for the life story of Japanese mystery author Edogawa Rampo; a celebration of an artistic spirit's creativity as told through a blending of reality and fantasy where one is not sure where one ends and the other begins. However, where the Paul Schrader film is a fascinating mix of a character's experience, ideology, and artistic vision, Rampo feels much more rough-edged and jagged, with the details of the author's life contrasting rather than complementing the more twisted elements of his literature that were censored for some time by the Japanese state. Interesting premise, but lacking in uniformity and not really cohesive. But I did learn that there was a famed Japanese mystery author who adopted a pen name intended to be a funny play on Edgar Allan Poe's name, so that's a plus. Go on, say 'Edogawa Rampo' three times fast. (2.5/5) See more 09/10/2020 Great movie Beautiful movie Favorite See more 04/07/2012 Elegance and Decadence beneath a brilliant moon!! See more 09/15/2011 Odd film from Japan about a famous mystery author who write a recent book that gets banned because of its eroticism. Of course, the book hasn't been published and yet a person is soon found dead based on what he wrote. That's really not the point of the film, in fact, it goes kind of all over the place. This had a lot of ups and downs, the beginning was excellent with a very cool animated sequence of his newest book. And about halfway through his new mystery idea is played out for about 30 minutes or so. But the last 15 minutes of the film are completely over the top and too trippy, it doesn't really work. THe music was excellent and I really loved a lot of the sequences in the second half of hte film, but overall it was just so so. See more 02/01/2008 (****): [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] A strange masterwork. I got truly involved and just loved mystery/film noir atmosphere that was created. See more Read all reviews

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