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Medical student Hirosuke Hitomi slips out of the asylum in which he has been wrongfully confined and stealthily assumes the identity of a recently deceased nobleman with whom he bears an uncanny resemblance. Hirosuke eases his way into the nobleman's household and his dead double's marital bed. But as long-repressed memories begin to bubble to the surface, he soon finds himself drawn to a remote isle where he is confronted by a mad scientist and his malformed men, and discovers the key that will unlock some long-suppressed mysteries of his own. A dark labyrinth of the monstrous and perverse that fuses mystery and horror while incorporating motifs from a myriad of Rampo's tales, Horrors of Malformed Men boasts astonishing carnivalesque art design and haunting performances. Withdrawn from cinemas by its own studio after its original scandalous release nearly fifty years ago, the film is among the very best screen interpretations of the author's macabre brand of horror-fantasy fiction, and a unique oddity of Japanese cult cinema. (Arrow Films)
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笈田敏夫
Japan
Best movies:
Horrors of Malformed Men (1969)
小池朝雄
Japan
Best movies:
Antarctica (1983)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deathmatch in Hiroshima (1973)
The Geisha (1983)
近藤正臣
Japan
Best movies:
Last Samurai (1974)
The Fall of Ako Castle (1978)
Eleven Samurai (1966)
Teruo Yoshida
Japan
Best movies:
Shogun's Joy of Torture (1968)
Horrors of Malformed Men (1969)
Inferno of Torture (1969)