Episde 583: Black Lizard (1962)

Special Guest: Earl Jackson
Guest Co-Hosts: Carol Borden, Samm Deighan

Carol Borden (The Cultural Gutter) and Samm Deighan (Twitch of the Death Nerve) join Mike to discuss two adaptations of Edogawa Rampo's Kurotokage. The 1962 was adapted by Kaneto Shindô and directed by Umetsugu Inoue while the 1968 was adapted by Masashige Narusawa and directed by Kinji Fukasaku. Both were based on the stage play version by Yukio Mishima.

Professor Earl Jackson discusses the strange bedfellows behind these amazing films about a criminal mastermind who squares off against the Japanese Sherlock Holmes.

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Buy Kurotokage (1962) on DVD
Watch Black Lizard (1968) on YouTube
Buy Black Lizard by Edogawa Rampo
Visit the official Miwa website

Music:
Black Lizard's Song - Toshirô Mayuzumi
"Song of the Black Lizard" - Pink Martini

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Kurotokage (Black Lizard) 1962 from John Hanlon on Vimeo.

Episode 453: Blind Beast (1969)

Guest Co-Hosts: Coffin Jon, Elric Kane

Our appreciation of 1969 continues with our second look at an adaptation of Edogawa Rampo’s work, Blind Beast. Directed by Yasuzô Masumura, the film stars Mako Midori as Aki Shima, a model, and Eiji Funakoshi as Michio, a blind sculptor who becomes obsessed with her. He and his mother kidnap Aki and keep her in his warehouse studio where the two become engaged in a game of cat and mouse as he tries to create a new form of art that only the blind can appreciate.

Coffin Jon and Elric Kane join Mike to discuss the film specifically and Masumura's work generally.

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Music:
"Blind Love" - Tom Waits

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Episode 452: Horrors of Malformed Men (1969)

Guest Co-Hosts: Jess Byard, Ben Buckingham

Our appreciation of 1969 continues with a look at Teruo Ishii's Horrors of Malformed Men. Based on the writings of Edogawa Rampo, the movie tells the tale of Hirosuke Hitomi (Teruo Yoshida) who we first see locked up in an insane asylum. Things only go downhill from there...

Ben Buckingham and Jess Byard join Mike to delve into the ero-guro genre.

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Buy Horrors of Malformed Men on Blu-Ray
Buy The Strange Case of Panorama Island by Edogawa Rampo
Buy The Edogawa Rampo Reader

Music:
"Fireworks" - Siouxsie & the Banshees

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