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.

1.54GB | 1h 40m | 832×468 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/4D303F946400090/The.Mystery.of.Rampo.1994.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv
or
https://tezfiles.com/file/1e7f0efd3e924/The.Mystery.of.Rampo.1994.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mp4

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Rintaro Mayuzumi & Kazuyoshi Okuyama – Rampo AKA The Mystery of Rampo (1994) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Based on an 1894 novel by Han Ziyun, and starring Hong Kong film and recording star Tony Leung, Hou’s first film set outside of Taiwan takes place in the elegant brothels of late nineteenth-century Shanghai, a hermetic world with its own highly ritualized codes of behavior. It traces the destinies of the beautiful “flower girls”, whose lives depended on their ability to win, and then hold, the affections of their wealthy callers. A mesmerizing and seductive tale of sexual intrigue.

3.71GB | 1h 53mn | 1024×552 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/D2C596470A54278/Hai_Shang_Hua_aka_Flowers_of_Shanghai_-_Hsiao_Hsien_Hou_(1998).mkv

Language(s):Shangainese, Cantonese
Subtitles:English, French, Chinese

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