people: Edogawa Rampo
2021
Barbet Schroeder's 'Inju': Rampo Wept May 21, 2021
An attempt to both modernize and partly Westernize Edogawa Rampo's thriller falls flat on both counts
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'The Strange Tale Of Panorama Island': He's So Unreal March 08, 2021
Suehiro Maruo's rendition of Edogawa Rampo's tale of wide-gauge decadence is both delirious and spot-on in its look and feel
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2020
'Gemini': Of Self And Other August 28, 2020
Shinya Tsukamoto's seething, psychedelic adaptation of Edogawa Rampo's work remains one of his best films
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2017
'Bungo Stray Dogs': Six (Or More) Authors In Search Of Some Character January 23, 2017
'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' for the J-lit set; a show that has one great creative invention and then spends its entire runtime doing nothing of consequence with it
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2016
'Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace': Darker Than You Think May 23, 2016
Edogawa Rampo's 'erotic-grotesque' horror stories are remixed for the (post)modern day in this sinister, surreal, and colorful adventure
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