![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The film concerns Aki (Mako Midori), a nude model kidnapped by a blind sculptor, Michio (Eiji Funakoshi). It’s no real surprise then that the director eventually took on one of Rampo’s more extreme novels for adaptation, 1931’s “Blind Beast”. Throughout the 1960s, the work of auteur filmmaker Yasuzo Masumura increasingly leaned towards the erotic, with films including Manji (1964) and Irezumi (1966). We’ve cast an eye over cinematic works inspired by his writing and picked out six of the most mysteriously seductive to delve into: Continued interest in Rampo’s books has seen many silver screen interpretations of his stories go into production over the years. The 1920s and 30s saw Rampo rise to become Japan’s foremost author of mystery fiction, with much of his work coming under the umbrella of ero guro nansensu (erotic grotesque nonsense), a literary movement of the era. ![]() Born in 1894, Rampo was heavily influenced by the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe, whose detective and horror stories inspired many of his novels. Japan has been home to many famous literary figures throughout history, yet few have a body of work so instantly recognisable as that of Taro Hirai, better known by his pseudonym, Edogawa Rampo. ![]()
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