An anthology film consisting of four segments based on literary works by Edogawa Ranpo.
Direction
Four wildly distinct visions that somehow bleed together.
Cinematography
Mirror Hell's kaleidoscopic descent into fractured identity.
Practical Effects
Caterpillar's grotesque body horror without digital safety net.
Director
Akio Jissoji
Tadanobu Asano
Man / Kogoro Akechi / Masaki / Fuyo's Lover
Hiroki Narimiya
Toru (segment "Mirror Hell")
Ryuhei Matsuda
Tarô Hirai (segment "Caterpillar")
Nao Omori
First Lieutenant Sunaga (segment "Caterpillar")
Minori Terada
Inspector Namikoshi (segment "Mirror Hell")
Yumi Yoshiyuki
Sayoko (segment "Mirror Hell")
Yuko Daike
Harumi (segment "Mirror Hell")
Tamaki Ogawa
Fuyu Kinoshita (segment "Crawling Bugs")
Hiromasa Taguchi
Dermatologist (segment "Crawling Bugs")
Tomoya Nakamura
Kobayashi (segment "Mirror Hell")
Hanae Kan
Kobayashi (segment "Caterpillar")
Mikako Ichikawa
Fumiyo Akechi (segment "Mirror Hell")
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Edogawa Ranpo's pen name itself honors Edgar Allan Poe, and this film channels that same baroque perversity through specifically Japanese wartime anxieties.
Tadanobu Asano appears in all four segments in different roles, becoming the film's fractured through-line—his casting was deliberate to suggest one splintered psyche across stories.
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