The stories were yet more examples of the brilliance that is edogawa rampo.
Edogawa rampo the stalker in the attic review.
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.
Though this film watcher in the attic has received a lot of critical lambaste i was really surprised by how well made it was.
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.
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.
The story is an inverted locked room mystery and remarkably modern in its subject matter.
The long introduction by seth jacobowitz is pretty perfect in capturing what is so essential about rampo his times and the work itself.
Watcher in the attic straddles many genres.
Influenced by the writings of edogawa rampo this film goes places that most american films would not.
Watcher in the attic 江戸川乱歩猟奇館 屋根裏の散歩者 edogawa rampo ryōkikan.
First of all i love rampo edogawa novels.
It is usually listed as a pink film the term fits but it is different than bondage films like flower and snake.
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.
It is a psychological thriller a period drama and a very steamy piece of erotica.
Yaneura no sanposha aka stroller in the attic edogawa rampo theater.
Legendary japanese writer rampo edogawa naoto takenaka finds the government censoring one of his stories.
Should the story be published they say the public may suffer from great shock and.
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.
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.
His personality remains rather vague.
