Indeed the 100th anniversary of the author s birth in 1994 was marked by shochiku studios with the bewildering big budget biopic the mystery of rampo and saw a slew of racy rampo adaptations including a remake of the watcher in the attic from akio jissoji a director perhaps best known for tokyo the last megalopolis teito monogatari 1987.
Edogawa rampo the stalker in the attic review.
It is a psychological thriller a period drama and a very steamy piece of erotica.
It is usually listed as a pink film the term fits but it is different than bondage films like flower and snake.
Should the story be published they say the public may suffer from great shock and.
Yaneura no sanposha aka stroller in the attic edogawa rampo theater.
Though this film watcher in the attic has received a lot of critical lambaste i was really surprised by how well made it was.
Influenced by the writings of edogawa rampo this film goes places that most american films would not.
Many of his novels involve the detective hero kogoro akechi who in later books was the leader of a group of boy.
Just these three are so imaginative and so clever they will stay with you forever.
It includes the story about a man who spends a lot of time in the attic where he spies on people down below and also commits a murder.
Walker in the attic and walker in the attic is a 1976 japanese film in nikkatsu s roman porno series directed by noboru tanaka and starring junko miyashita.
Yaneura no sanposha the stalker in the attic was originally published in the august 1925 issue of shin seinen and a translation was published in a collection of short stories and essays the edogawa rampo reader 2008 which gave 1926 as the story s original year of publication which has to be wrong.
I thought his novel japanese tales of mystery and imagination was amazing plus this is one of the few films where even though his character is the villain of sorts his character is still sympathetic.
The story is an inverted locked room mystery and remarkably modern in its subject matter.
Akechi kogoro returns in the stalker in the attic an ironic affair is conducted in the air raid shelter and untold damage is done in poison weeds.
Watcher in the attic straddles many genres.
The long introduction by seth jacobowitz is pretty perfect in capturing what is so essential about rampo his times and the work itself.
First of all i love rampo edogawa novels.
Legendary japanese writer rampo edogawa naoto takenaka finds the government censoring one of his stories.
Tarō hirai 平井 太郎 hirai tarō october 21 1894 july 28 1965 better known by the pseudonym edogawa ranpo 江戸川 乱歩 also romanized as edogawa rampo was a japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of japanese mystery fiction.
In the four next stories in which he appears until and including the stalker in the attic see the edogawa rampo reader all still from 1925 he functions as a sort of plot device appearing only towards the end of the stories to explain the solution in fact the stories would be better without him.
