If you loved Ten Nights of Dreams, try Rampo Noir

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

You already loved

Ten Nights of Dreams

2007 · dir. Takashi Shimizu, Yudai Yamaguchi, Kon Ichikawa, Akio Jissoji, Suzuki Matsuo, Nobuhiro Yamashita, Keisuke Toyoshima, Atsushi Shimizu, Miwa Nishikawa, Yoshitaka Amano

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Rampo Noir

2005 · dir. Akio Jissoji, Hisayasu Satō, Atsushi Kaneko, Suguru Takeuchi

What they share

Both films are directed by Akio Jissoji, and they both carry the mindfuck, surreal mood tags, and they sit in Fantasy / Horror territory. If that's the register that drew you to Ten Nights of Dreams, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Rampo Noir is

Metropolitan Tokyo’s neon haze, summer. A single cicada’s pulse. Four writers from different eras share haunted nightmares—missing fingers, impossible doubles, a corridor of mirrors that swallows light. Each tale drags sanity through a mirror’s shard. One shot of blood on celluloid.

If you loved Ten Nights of Dreams, try Rampo Noir

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What they share

What Rampo Noir is

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