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Purely Joyful Movie!

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I know I'm not the smartest, but I found this a very confusing story, something about a writer whose story is not printed but then it comes true in real life. The writer then goes to the main woman of the story to investigate.The main redeeming quality of this film, for me, was the visuals, which were very good and sometimes very different. Almost all of the Chinese-made movies I have seen have great color to them, and this is no exception. I was so captivated by the intriguing visuals, I didn't especially care if I couldn't follow the non-sensible and slow-moving storyline.

Excellent film!THe mystery of Rampo is about the author, Edogawa Rampo, Japans most famous mystery writier. In the movie, Rampo writes a novel which is censored about a woman who kills her husband. But later, Rampo reads in the paper that his character has come to life! What's more, he must now write a conclusion to the woman he has created, while trying not to fall in love with her. A stunningly brilliant movie, with wonderful visual effects, a film that is great even without words! A definate must see!

This is a fitting tribute to Edogawa Rampo, one of the greatest horror/suspense writers of the 20th century. He so keenly admired Edgar Allan Poe that he effaced his own name and personality and adopted Poe's (say "Edogawa Rampo" a few times quickly and you'll see that it is a Japanese pronunciation of the name of the great American writer). Rampo wrote so few works that it is wonderful that a film like this should be made about him, or rather, about his persona -- it is the only way that most people will be able to appreciate his deeply complex personality. (To be perfectly honest, having long ago read Rampo's "The Human Chair," and had its utterly unspeakable terribleness burned into his consciousness, this writer was GREATLY suspicious of the seats in the theater where this film was shown -- THAT is the sort of impact Rampo and his work can have on the mind!)

Beautiful, stylish, and spectacular. It's not the way we usually use to describe mysteries. This one is an exception. Actually I saw both the original version released in Japan and the one released here in the States. The major difference between the two is the sound effect, and the cut was slightly different. As the results, the original one is more mysterious, and the latter is, ..., more beautiful. I'll highly recommend you take a look at the first one if you can find a copy and understand Japanese. Pay special attention to the sound effect and the ending. I think this is the best modern Japanese film (after the Akira Kurosawa era) you can find in America. Personally, I like the original Japanese version. The music isn't as beautiful as in American version, though. There is one final line being cut off in American version:"Goodbye, Mr. Yokomizo."The writer said this one last line to his publisher friend as the image disappeared. I think that is the point of the whole story, to make you not be able to tell what you just saw is for real or just a story. After all, the writer, and Yokomizo, were real people. Too bad, they cut the line off............