Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf - trailer

After more than 30 years of making this film that challenges Edogawa Rampo's work, "Edogawa Rampo Zenshu Kyofu Kikai Ningen", Teruo Ishii ("Screwed", "Hell") is going to challenge him once again in this new film for the 110th anniversary of the birth of Rampo!!
Monzo Kobayashi is a dime-novel writer. He goes to see the performance of Ranko Mizuki, a star of an all-girls'-operetta company known as Asakusa Revue. Monzo notices a creepy man sitting beside him who keeps his head slumped down and does not even look up when Ranko appears on stage. On the way home from the theater, Monzo encounters another creepy situation. A dwarf (inch-high samurai) with a child-sized body and a grown-up's head passes right by him and is carrying a woman's arm that has been sliced off from the shoulder. Being a writer, this strangely enhances his interest in this dwarf and he begins an investigation about dwarves.
At the same time, his old friend Yurie visits him. Monzo secretly has a crush on her but knows that she is married to someone else. Yurie asks Monzo to introduce her to his friend, a detective, Kogoro Akechi. Monzo agrees to this and takes her to Akechi's apartment. When Akechi tells them about his current investigation, Monzo surprisingly finds out that Ranko Mizuki has disappeared. However, this is just the beginning of a bizarre twist that is going to occur one after another. Monzo and Akechi's challenge to solve the mystery begins.

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[nikolausgulacsik]

That may be the greatest film trailer I've ever seen.