Leslie and I watched the first twenty or so minutes of Rampo (from 1994) last night (as soon as we both started to nod off, we paused it)... Wow,
really, I was blown away. Maybe it helped that I had the soundtrack for a
few weeks before I saw it (Thanks Robert!!), but it didn't help that much,
as the soundtrack was so beautiful it was intoxicating... I would have had
the same inclination as Robert, buy that soundtrack!... And the score was
only a quarter of the wow factor. The animation, the story, the
cinematography, all were amazing. One of my first thoughts after about 15
minutes was that it struck me as a film that could have been a Kurosawa
work. I bet Mifune would have been interesting as Edogawa Rampo... Also, Naoto Takenaka looks so much like Rampo. And I've never heard of Eddy Rampo, but now I want to read about him.
And other thought I had was, again, why can't American cinema do this? Why can't they care about the Art? Are Asian people so much more advanced than we are? Could such work not succeed in America, no matter how well done?
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