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.
Masahiro Motoki
Naoto Takenaka
Michiko Hada
Teruyuki Kagawa
Mikijiro Hira
Shirō Sano
Ittoku Kishibe
Nekohachi Edoya
Junichi Takagi
Kirin Kiki
Julie Dreyfus
Yoshio Harada
Kinji Fukasaku
Hiroshi Abe
Genjiro Arato
Tetsuya Bessho
Yu Hayami
Kazuya Kimura
Tomokazu Miura
Kenji Ohtsuki
Kōji Wakamatsu