"The Mystery of Rampo" (not "Rampo" as IMDB lists it) is a superb, artistic Japanese mystery built around the stories of Edogawa Rampo, a popular writer who borrowed his pen name from Edgar Allan Poe. Rampo appears as a main figure in this, and he interacts with characters from (at least one of) his stories and gets involved in the narrative. This focuses on a beautiful woman who may or may not have murdered her husband by locking him in a chest. The writer Rampo, a shy man, and a rich, deranged duke both become fascinated with her - so Rampo sends his handsome hero over to the Duke's palace to investigate. It is a visually striking and engrossing film that makes me wonder why Kazuyoshi Okuyama, the writer-director, is not a bigger name in the West.