Screenplay: Rampo Edogawa

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Mako Midori · Noriko Sengoku

Plot A blind sculpter and his mother kidnap a young model.

Direction Shinya Tsukamoto

Cast Masahiro Motoki · Ryo · Yasutaka Tsutsui · Shiho Fujimura

Plot A successful doctor, Yukio's picture perfect life is gradually wrecked, and taken over by his avenging twin brother, who bumps off his family members one by one and reclaims his...

Direction Rintaro Mayuzumi · Kazuyoshi Okuyama

Cast Masahiro Motoki · Naoto Takenaka · Michiko Hada · Teruyuki Kagawa

Plot 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...

Direction Teruo Ishii

Cast Teruo Yoshida · Yukie Kagawa · Teruko Yumi · Mitsuko Aoi

Direction Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Shinobu Terajima · Shima Ohnishi · Keigo Kasuya · Emi Masuda

Plot If there is a filmmaker who always maintains a radical tone, that’s Koji Wakamatsu. Politically–take his politically active films, from the sixties– as well as formally. Wakamatsu settles into the...

Direction Akio Jissoji · Atsushi Kaneko · Hisayasu Sato · Suguru Takeuchi

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Yuko Daike · Chisako Hara · Masami Horiuchi

Plot This horror anthology takes its cue from the short fiction of writer Taro Hirai, better known by his nomme du plume Edogawa Rampo - wordplay on the name of legendary...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Akihiro Miwa · Isao Kimura · Kikko Matsuoka · Jun Usami

Direction Noboru Tanaka

Cast Junko Miyashita · Renji Ishibashi · Hiroshi Chô · Kyôichi Mizuki

Plot The landlord of a boarding house in 1923 Tokyo, is keen on spying on the bizarre close encounters taking place beneath his roof. One day he sees a prostitute killing...

Direction Barbet Schroeder

Cast Benoît Magimel · Ryo Ishibashi · Shun Sugata · Lika Minamoto

Plot After arriving in Japan to promote his latest novel, Alex Fayard encounters Tamao, a geisha. When Alex accepts to help her deal with the death threat an ex-lover has out...

Direction Hiroyuki Yamamoto

Cast Susumu Fujita · Joji Oka · Chikako Miyagi

Plot A spider-like man kidnaps young women and tortures them in his cellar

Direction Tsuneo Kobayashi

Cast Yûnosuke Itô · Ushio Akashi · Takashi Kanda · Akiko Kazami

Direction Shoji Kubota

Cast Mao Miyaji · Yûrei Yanagi · Mari Hoshino · Kôta Kusano

Direction Akio Jissoji

Cast Hiroshi Mikami · Kan'ichi Hiraga · Masami Horiuchi · Keiko Kaga

Plot The landlord of a boarding house in 1923 Tokyo, is keen on spying on the bizarre close encounters taking place beneath his roof. One day he sees a prostitute killing...

Direction Masahiro Mukai

Plot TV Series (2016 - 2017). 24 Episodes. It is the 2030s. The Boy Detectives Club gathers under Kogorō Akechi, the mysterious detective. The group solves cases great and small using...

Direction Umetsugu Inoue

Cast Machiko Kyô · Minoru Oki · Junko Kano · Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Plot A jeweler hires detective Akechi to find his daughter kidnapped by a famous thief known as the Black Lizard.

Direction Masako Matsuura

Cast Michiko Hada · Hiroshi Abe · Haruko Katô · Eiji Okada

Direction Tsuneo Kobayashi

Cast Eiji Okada · Hitomi Nakahara · Kôji Nanbara · Kunio Hara

Direction Shoji Kubota

Cast Houka Kinoshita · Aino Kuribayashi · Reiya Masaki · Kazuki Namioka

Plot Sad and beautiful fate of a high school girl and a former high school teacher. Their deep affection turns into madness - A modern adaptation of a short novel "Akuma...

Direction Akio Jissoji

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Kyusaku Shimada · Yumi Yoshiyuki · Yuko Daike

Plot Detective Kogoro Akechi is faced with a peculiar murder case involving forgeries of classic pornographic artworks.

Direction Umetsugu Inoue

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Michiyo Aratama · Hisano Yamaoka · Izumi Ashikawa

Plot A man accidentally kills his wife after she confronts him about his mistress. Now he and his mistress try to hide the body... Based on a story by Edogawa Ranpo.