Rampo Noir (2005)

Bemerkungen:

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SUGURU TAKEUCHI                     AKIO JISSOJI

R A M P O   N O I R

HISAYASU SATO                      ATSUSHI KANEKO

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                 Arrow Video
              Limited Edition
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Blu-ray im transparenten Amaray Keep Case (breiter Rand).
Neues Artwork von Luke Insect und Original-Artwork als Haupt- und Wendecover.

Exklusiv zur Erstauflage gehören:

• O-Ring-Pappschuber (matt)
• doppelseitig bedrucktes Poster mit neuem Artwork von Luke Insect
• 28-seitiges Booklet, in Farbe. Inhalt:
  
  • Contents (S. 2)
  • Cast & Crew (S. 4-7)
  • Erotic Grotesque Nonsense (2024) by Eugene Thacker (S. 9-15)
  • The Avant Garde Hell of Rampo Noir (2024) by Seth Jacobowitz (S. 17-24)
  • About the Presentation / Production Credits / Special Thanks (S. 27)

Nach Einlegen der Disc erscheint ein Einspieler mit Copyright-Hinweisen, Arrow-Logo und rechtlichen Hinweisen zu geäußerten Meinungen (0:28 Min.)

Das Menü ist musikalisch untermalt. Im Hintergrund laufen Szenen aus dem Film.

Menüpunkte:

• Play Film
• Special Features
• Setup

Der Hauptfilm ist in 12 Kapitel unterteilt (kein Kapitelmenü).

Regionalcode: B (laut Coverangabe)

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Herstellerangaben von der Arrow-Homepage:

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' 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.
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