Controversial shocker that follows a young medical student as he escapes from a medical asylum and makes a shocking discovery while attempting to locate his mysterious doppelganger. Hirosuke is an amnesiac determined to locate his long lost father. Soon after escaping the asylum where he is being held against his will Hirosuke is shocked to see a picture of his spitting image in the newspaper. Now as Hirosuke assumes the identity of a dead man in order to travel to remote Panorama Island and unlock the secrets of his family past the grotesque truth that awaits him will forever alter his perception of the natural world. Deep in the jungles of Panorama Island Hirosukes obsessed father has been conducting a series of bizarre medical experiments in hopes of finding a cure for his disfigured wife. But success has eluded the crazed scientist and all that his experiments have yielded is an abominable dominion populated by repulsive half-human/half-man hybrids. Here in a surreal world of incest murder and insanity Hirosuke will finally come face to face with the most terrifying creations ever to walk the earth.

Kyôfu kikei ningen: Edogawa Rampo zenshû (1969)
  • Rating: (405 votes)
  • Runtime:99 minutes
  • Director: Teruo Ishii
  • Country:Japan
  • Actors:
    Hirosuke Hitomi / Genzaburô Komoda
    Teruo Yoshida
    Shizuko
    Yukie Kagawa
    Hideko / Hatsuyo
    Teruko Yumi
    Toki Komoda
    Mitsuko Aoi
    Chiyoko Komoda
    Michiko Kobata
    Female Patient A
    Yumiko Katayama
    Kei
    Kei Kiyama
    Mad Woman
    Reiko Mikasa
    Slashed Woman
    Miki Obana
    Kin
    Michi Tanaka
  • Genres:Mystery, Horror
  • Producers:
    Kanji Amao
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    Shigeru Okada
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Kyôfu kikei ningen: Edogawa Rampo zenshû
  • User's comment:A rewarding movie. by Boba_Fett1138

    If you can stick this movie out till the end, you'll get a very rewarding movie. It's not the easiest movie to watch and it didn't seemed at first to me that this movie was going to be much good early one but it's definitely a movie that gets better in its second halve, when there is more story and the movie its visuals become just great to watch.

    It's a quite surrealistic Japanese movie, that relies heavily on its visuals. There are some amazing visuals throughout the movie, with also the thanks of the phenomenal camera-work. It's an artistic movie above all things, so beware of what to expect.

    Of course there is also a story but this one is quite hard to follow at times. It isn't until the movie reaches its halve way point that it becomes more or less more clear in which direction the story is going. The movie soon becomes a sort of a surrealistic Japanese version of the Island of Dr. Moreau. I think those that are familiar with this story, or any of the other movie versions of the story will be more able to understand and appreciate this movie.

    For a Japanese movie it also features quite some good acting. It's an obviously well cast movie, in which the actors don't act in a very theatrical way, like you might expect from a Japanese movie. Especially surprising also since this movie got made back in 1969.

    After finishing watching this movie I simply must say that I overall enjoyed it and found it to be an ultimately rewarding movie to watch, though it's obvious that this is not really a movie for just everyone.

    8/10

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  • Also known as: Horror of a Deformed Man (International - English title), Horrors of Malformed Men (USA - DVD title), Kyofu kikei ningen (Japan - short title), L'orrore degli uomini deformi (Italy),

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