20-10-1894
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Tarō Hirai, Edogawa Ranpo, 江户川乱步
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Mie, Japan
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20-10-1894
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Edogawa Ranpo
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Mie, Japan
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お勢、断行
Year:
2022
Kaykobad
Based on Edogawa Ranpo's short story The Human Chair.Year:
2021
The Butterfly Collector: The Red Room
A former high school teacher Sugiura lost everything when he was caught, peeping photos of his favorite student and living a degenerate life. One day, a girl named Rumi, wearing high school uniform, appears in front of Sugiura. They are immediately drowns in lust and Rumi crashes into Sugiura's apartment. Gradually, Sugiura becomes obsessed with Rumi and tie her down. When Sugiura's dark desire to leave her in a beautiful, young appearance forever, and Rumi's deep feeling towards Sugiura crosses, they head towards a beautiful but sad ending.Year:
2021
Naked Angel : The Red Room
Matsunaga, the president of a real estate company, spends his week in a secret hideaway to forget his title and social status. One day, he meets Fumiko, a girl who has a mysterious charm, and is gradually attracted to him. Matsunaga deepened his relationship with her, but suddenly a mysterious man appeared.Year:
2021
Mobius Villain: The Red Room
Rampo Adaptaton released in 2020Year:
2020
Black Lizard
Set in the future where it is commonplace for high tech crimes to get through cyber defense, Iwase Shobei, a wealthy man and well-known collector of gems, asks private investigator Akechi Kogoro to provide personal protection for his daughter Sanae. Iwase has been warned that she will be kidnapped. The mysterious phantom thief Kurotokage, who deftly replaces precious gems with imitations, stands in Akechi's way. However, Kogoro catches on that Madam Midorikawa, the owner of an exclusive hotel who has give shelter to Sanae, is actually Kurotokage, and prevents Sanae's abduction. However, he is hampered by a trick laid in the entire hotel and fails to catch her. At that moment, the thief and famous investigator secretly fall in love. Akechi chases Kurotokage and eventually learns about her tragic past and surprising identity. Although swayed by forbidden love, both have a final showdown at Kurotokage's secret museum which houses her collection. Who will be the victor?—Jdrama WeblogYear:
2019
Super Juvenile Detective Team NEO Beginning
High school student Yoshiro Kobayashi (Mahiro Takasugi) is the great-grandchild of the first president of the Boy Detectives Club. He enjoys time with his friends Watari (Gaku Sano) and Saya (Mayu Hotta). One day, the Fiend with Twenty Faces appears in front of Yoshiro. Mysterious cases then takes place in sequence.Year:
2019
The Traveler with the Pasted Rag Picture
The story begins in the early Showa era of the 20th century. A mysterious old man on a train relates the disappearance of his older brother three decades ago, near the 12-story Ryounkaku tower that once stood in the seaside town of Uozu, Japan. The mystery revolves around telescopes, peep shows, and the blurred boundary between reality and dreams.Year:
2018
The Crawler In The Attic
Private detective Kogoro (Kouta Kusano) receives a request from Naoko (Yuki Mamiya). She is the daughter of a family that runs a large hosital. Naoko wants private detective Kogoro to investigate her fiance Endo (Yasushi Fuchikami) and whether he is having an affair with university student Teruko (Noriko Kijima).Year:
2016
Black Lizard
Year:
2015
Caterpillar
The story of a village woman given the grueling task of looking after (and fulfilling the sexual needs of) her quadruple amputee husband, a Japanese soldier in the Second Sino-Japanese War who has been decreed a "War God" by the Emperor.Year:
2010
Lost Love Murder
Shuichi Minamida lives comfortably on the proceeds of his father's legacy, but he struggles with the idea that his beautiful wife, Moyako, no longer loves him. One day he confesses his worries to Kotoura, his dentist. Kotoura summons the Akechi detective agency and asks them to investigate his friend's wife, Miyako. Fumiyo Akechi takes the case and begins her investigation. She soon notices that something strange is going on between Miyako and the dentist. This observation leads to a tragic ending which none of those involved could ever imagine.Year:
2010
Inju: The Beast in the Shadow
The writer and college professor, Alexandre Fayard, researches and gives lectures about the gruesome literary work of the mysterious Japanese writer Shundei Oe, considered by him to be the master of manipulation.Year:
2008
Rampo Noir
An anthology film consisting of four segments based on literary works by Edogawa Ranpo.Year:
2005
Zero Woman 2005
The Metropolitan Police Department '0'section, known as an organization in the police department that investigates a closed case. Well-trained detective in the '0' section, Rei, is looking for her memory that was lost during the training, while also investigating a human traffic which young woman being a victim. One day, classified killer virus was seized by rising terrorists. To investigate this case, public safety sent Sarah Kodama who specializes in molecular biology and computer, to work with Rei but Rei refuses to work with Sarah. Sarah was curious about mysterious Rei, so she starts to collect Rei's information and goes to see Rei's former boss, Asami. However, the man who appeared in front of Sarah was an assassinator who contemplates destruction of '0' section. What happens to Sarah...!? What is in Rei's lost memories!?Year:
2004
Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso
At the end of World War II, a secret human experiment was being conducted in Manchuria, which was in the sphere of influence of the Japanese military. One man's face was to be transformed into that of a completely different person through plastic surgery. Shortly after operation, Japanese military facility where the man was staying was involved in a battle and collapsed, and he disappeared. In 1948, a letter of warning from the Twenty Faces was posted on the wall of the Japanese Museum. The notice read, “All national treasures will be taken away. The police, aware of the warning letter, rush to the Japanese Museum...Year:
2002
Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf
A blind masseur kidnaps young women and kills them and then make sculptures of them, while a mysterious dwarf spreading severed body parts around. Detective Akechi Kogorô investigating crimes.Year:
2001
Gemini
When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.Year:
1999
Murder on D Street
Detective Kogoro Akechi is faced with a peculiar murder case involving forgeries of classic pornographic artworks.Year:
1998
The Human Chair
After seeing her husband off to work, the young author identified only as Yoshiko sets off to read the large collection of letters she received from other young authors. These are often letters containing samples of their work for critique. One large envelope contains a letter. The letter-writer does not provide his name. The letter is a confession of crimes. The letter-writer has no family or friends, and claims to be "ugly beyond description". He is a chair maker and loves his work and all the chairs he creates, even going so far as to claim some sort of intangible connection to his work.Year:
1997
Secret Liaisons
Movie adaptation of a novel by Rampo Edogawa.Year:
1995
The Mystery of Rampo
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.Year:
1995
Edogawa Rampo Theater: The Man Who Travels With Prints
At the beginning of the Showa era, a man who was captivated by a girl he saw through a telescope locked her in a "painting". Visualization based on Rampo's "Oshie and Traveling Man". Released in 1994 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Rampo's birth.Year:
1994
A Watcher in the Attic
In 1923, in a cheap Tokyo rooming house, a languid young man named Goda was feeling bored with his life. One day while playing dress up with a woman’s wig and lipstick, he accidentally loosens a ceiling board in his closet. Climbing up, he discovers a dimly lit passageway under the roof leading to the resident’s other rooms. Soon he is scampering about like a ninja, making knotholes and moving ceiling boards for a better view. What he sees are the intimate acts - sadistic, criminal or vaguely mad - that reveal infinitely more about his fellow roomers than the various fronts they present to the world.Year:
1994
The Beauty of Black Pearl
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1985
Beauty in the Flame
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1984
White skinned beauty
Year:
1983
Beauty at the Bottom of the Lake
Year:
1982
The Beauty of the Makeup Stage
Year:
1982
The Beauty of Heaven and Hell
Year:
1982
Edogawa Ranpo Series Fascinated Beauty
Year:
1980
江戸川乱歩の黄金仮面ＩＩ／桜の国の美女
Year:
1980
大時計の美女 江戸川乱歩の「幽霊塔」
Year:
1979
Hôseki no bijo: Edogawa Ranpo Hakuhatsuki yori
Year:
1979
Gem Beauty
Year:
1979
Fairy Beauty
Year:
1978
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
Year:
1978
江戸川乱歩「緑衣の鬼」より 白い人魚の美女
Year:
1978
The Beauty in the Bathroom
Original work: The second installment of Edogawa Rampage's Inference Masterpiece series, which began airing on Asahi TV in the second half of the 1970s and gained popularity. Famous actor Tian Zhimao plays detective wise Kogoro. A magician who targets the Yucun family, who obtain huge wealth through gemstones. Even the wise Kogoro was fooled by his meticulous criminal planYear:
1978
The Faceless Man
Okada, who had escaped death in the duel, suffered the greatest humiliation in the presence of his beloved Fumiko, and disappeared. Mitani and Fumiko are united, but when Okada's body is found, Fumiko becomes embroiled in a terrible incident... The story is about a beautiful woman who sends all the men who woo her to their deaths.Year:
1977
A Scream from Nowhere
In 1930, the chance meeting of a novelist and one of his fans opens the door to a series of mysterious events culminating in the death of a wealthy industrialist who may have been leading a double life.Year:
1977
The Watcher in the Attic
A shiftless resident in a boarding house spends his days crawling in the attic and spying on the renters below. One day he spies an elegant lady enter a room where a clown awaited her and watched as he pleasured her. But she spotted him watching and it aroused her more. Thus begins a story of two people who find they share similar desires and deadly passions.Year:
1976
Horrors of Malformed Men
After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appears to be his doppelganger, and gets lured to a sinister island ruled by a mad scientist and his malformed men.Year:
1969
Blind Beast
A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form. Here a deranged passion play of sensual and sexual obsession is acted out in world where sight is replaced by touch.Year:
1969
Black Lizard
A detective tries to outwit a jewel thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get to an exquisite diamond.Year:
1968
Black Lizard
The cunning detective Akeichi must foil a kidnapping plot orchestrated by the notorious jewel thief known as Black Lizard.Year:
1962
The Hidden Treasure
Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.Year:
1959
The Boy Detectives Club – The Enemy Is an Atomic Submarine
Ninth and final film in the Boy Detectives Club series. Features Tatsuo Umemiya's film debut.Year:
1959
The Spider-Man
Adaptation of Edogawa Ranpo's novel.Year:
1958
The Boy Detectives Club – The No-Headed Man
Eighth film in the Boy Detectives Club series.Year:
1958
The Boy Detectives Club – The Invisible Fiend
Seventh film in the Boy Detectives Club series.Year:
1958
The Boy Detectives Club – The Glow-in-the-Dark Monster
Sixth film in the Boy Detectives Club series.Year:
1957
The Boy Detectives Club – The Revenge of Twenty Faces
Fifth film in the Boy Detectives Club series.Year:
1957
The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend
Fourth film in the Boy Detectives Club series.Year:
1957
Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki
A man with many disguises uses robotic beetles, man-made monsters and other devices to try and steal atomic power.Year:
1957
The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces
Second film in the Boy Detectives Club series.Year:
1956
The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom
First film in the Boy Detectives Club series.Year:
1956
Crossroad
Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an affair with his secretary, Harumi. In his attempt to perfect his crime, he drives to a remote quarry to bury his wife’s body, but along the way, he finds another dead body in the back of his car! Given no choice, Ise dumps both bodies. Meanwhile, Yoshie begins her search for her missing brother, Yoshihiko. After surprising twists and turns, Ise faces his fate.Year:
1956
Mysterious Pygmy
Horror film about a killer dwarf.Year:
1955
The Bronze Monster
In this four part mystery-adventure, detective Kogoro Akechi and the members of the Boy Detectives Club must capture the Bronze Monster, a giant metal monster that steals valuable clocks.Year:
1954
Monster with Twenty Faces
Edogawa Rampo's famous detectiveYear:
1954
Hyōchū no Bijo
Based on the novel The Vampire (Kyūketsuki) by Edogawa Ranpo.Year:
1950
Ghost Tower
Horror film directed by Kôzô Saeki.Year:
1948
Palette knife no satsujin
Based on the short story The Psychological Test by Edogawa Rampo.Year:
1946
