Update on Keisaku Satô’s NINGEN-ISU and Mitsuhiro Mihara’s YANEURA NO SANPOSHA

Posted by The Gomorrahizer at 9:32pm.

Posted in Trailer Alerts , Drama, Horror, Asia.

A downloadable MPEG-4 version of the trailer for Keisaku Satô‘s Ningen-isu and Mitsuhiro Mihara’s Yaneura no sanposha has been added to PodTV. As was previously reported here on Twitch, both movies are based on eponymous short stories by Tarô Hirai (1894-1965) - better known by the pen name “Edogawa Ranpo”.

The screenplay for Ningen-isu was written by (Keisaku) Satô and Aya Takei. The movie stars Mao Miyaji, Maju Ozawa (she’s also in Kenta Fukasaku’s XX (XX (ekusu kurosu): makyô densetsu) - a.k.a. “X-Cross"), Itsuji Itao, Osamu Tsuji, Ken Ishikawa, Kaoru Suzuki, Takuya Suzuki, Masao Kayano, and Hineki Mito.

The screenplay for Yaneura no sanposha was written by Kishû Izuchi (Iduchi Kishû - he also wrote the screenplay for Takahisa Zeze’s Shisei: ochita jorôgumo). The movie stars Yôko Kamon (she’s also in Toshikazu Katsu’s Joshû 611: onna-tachi no yakata, Joshû 611: onna-tachi no gyakushû, and Joshû shiiku 611), Shunsuke Kubozuka (Kuboduka Shunsuke), Jin Muraki, Hikari Nagase, Momoko Shimizu, Ryôko Yûi (she’s also in Kôsuke Suzuki’s Kôan keisatsu sôsakan), Hôka Kinoshita, and Denden.

Art Port K.K. (K.K. Âto Pôto) is scheduled to release Ningen-isu at the Theater N Shibuya (Shiatâ N Shibuya) in Tokyo on June 30th; it’s scheduled to release Yaneura no sanposha there on July 7th.

Ningen-isu and Yaneura no sanposha trailer (downloadable 9.1 MB MPEG-4 file)

Ningen-isu and Yaneura no sanposha trailer (streaming Windows Media)

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Reader Comments

James Maruyama 06/06/2007 @ 9:54am

I always found it clever that Hirai’s pseudonym “Edogawa Rampo” is actually a Japanese rendering of the name Edgar Allan Poe, whose writings he was a big admirer of. I think there has already been at least one movie adaptation of “Ningen No Isu” (Human Chair) done. That seems to be the case for many of Edogawa Rampo’s works.