Kyôfu kikei ningen: Edogawa Rampo zenshû

"Banned for decades! The most notorious Japanese horror film ever made!"

Oct 31 1969 Not Rated 1h 39m
Horror

After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appears to be his doppelganger, and gets lured to a sinister island ruled by a mad scientist and his malformed men.

Plot

After escaping from an insane asylum, a young medical student takes on the identity of a dead man to discover the true identity of a man whose picture he saw in a newspaper--who is his exact double. His investigation leads him to a remote island where he discovers a sinister laboratory where a crazed scientist is performing gruesome experiments on live humans--and that his own family has a connection to the scientist.

Written by

Teruo Ishii, Masahiro Kakefuda, Rampo Edogawa

Directed by

Teruo Ishii

Production Countries

Japan

Production Companies

Toei Company

Languages

Awards

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Scores
# of Votes
2,209
Average Rating
6.4 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA