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Rampo Noir Limited Edition

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Release Date: 06/01/2025

Edition: Limited Edition
Genre: Horrors
Region Code: Region B
Certificate: 18
Label: Arrow Video
Actors: Ryûhei Matsuda, Tadanobu Asano, Tarô Suwa, Tomoya Nakamura, Yûko Daike, Hiroki Narimiya, Chisako Hara, Hanae Kan, Susumu Terajima, Yukiko Okamoto, Hiromasa Taguchi, Tamaki Ogawa
Director: Akio Jissôji, Atsushi Kaneko, Hisayasu Satô, Suguru Takeuchi
Number of Discs: 1
Duration: 134 minutes
Audio Languages: Japanese
Subtitle Languages: English

Four filmmakers from completely different backgrounds bring their radically personal takes to the stories of Japan’s celebrated master of the macabre, Edogawa Rampo (Horrors of Malformed Men, Blind Beast).

In “Mars’s Canal”, by music video director and visual artist Suguru Takeuchi, a lone man encounters the other side of his psyche beyond the reflective surface of a circular pond set in a desolate landscape. Japanese New Wave auteur and longtime director of the Ultraman series Akio Jissoji (This Transient Life, Mandala) harnesses his distinctive stylistic sheen in his story of a mad mirror maker, “Mirror Hell”. “Caterpillar” sees the singular vision of cult director Hisayasu Sato (The Bedroom, Naked Blood) at its most grotesque, in his portrait of a wounded war veteran who returns from the frontline as little more than a bloody torso, helpless to defend himself against the increasingly perverted caprices of an embittered wife. Finally, a famous actor is subjected to the obsessive attentions of her limo driver in “Crawling Bugs”, the directorial debut of internationally acclaimed manga artist Atsushi Kaneko (Bambi and Her Pink Gun).

Produced by the same team behind Ichi the Killer and Uzumaki, and with a cast featuring some of Japan’s top stars, including Tadanobu Asano (Maboroshi, Silence) and Ryuhei Matsuda (Blue Spring, Gohatto), Rampo Noir is a stylistic tour-de-force that vividly evokes the “erotic grotesque” worlds created by Japan’s pioneering proponent of horror and mystery fiction.



Special Features: LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
• High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation
• Original lossless Japanese stereo audio
• Optional newly translated English subtitles
• Brand new audio commentary by Japanese film experts Jasper Sharp and Alexander Zahlten
• Another World, a new interview with Suguru Takeuchi, director of “Mars’s Canal”
• A Moving Transformation, a new interview with Hisayasu Sato, director of “Caterpillar”
• Butterfly Queen, a new interview with Atsushi Kaneko, manga artist and director of “Crawling Bugs”
• Hall of Mirrors, a new interview with cinematographer Masao Nakabori about working with Akio Jissoji and “Mirror Hell”
• The Butterfly Effect, a new interview with Akiko Ashizawa, the cinematographer of “Caterpillar”
• Looking in the Mirror, a new interview with actor Yumi Yoshiyuki about “Mirror Hell”
• Archive stage greeting footage with the cast and directors from the Japanese premiere of Rampo Noir
• Crossing the Lens, a feature-length making-of documentary by Tatsuya Fukushima from 2006
• Image gallery
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Luke Insect
• Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Eugene Thacker and Seth Jacobowitz
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