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The Mystery Of Rampo

1994, Movie, NR, 103 mins

The Mystery Of Rampo: Review

Mild-mannered mystery writer Edogawa Rampo (to uncover the homophonic origins of this pen name, pretend you're Jerry Lewis imitating a Japanese person, then say "Edgar Allan Poe") becomes mesmerized by a woman accused of murdering her husband in exactly the manner he described in an unpublished story. Has his fiction somehow come to life? And if so, what control does he have over his creations? To muddle matters further, there really was a hugely popular Japanese novelist wh... read more leave a comment