Rampo Noir

A shadowy dive into Japanese pulp noir that blends psychological horror with surreal, stylized dread.

• Adapts Edogawa Ranpo’s twisted tales, bringing early 20th-century Japanese weird fiction to vivid, unsettling life.
• Four distinct segments offer a sampler of noir-inflected horror — from voyeuristic obsessions to grotesque body horror.
• Fans of Seijun Suzuki’s baroque visuals and early Cronenberg will find familiar thrills in the film’s murky atmosphere and corporeal unease.
• Not for straightforward scares, but a cerebral, artful probe into identity, desire, and the grotesque underbelly of the human psyche.