91電影制片廠劇情簡介
? ⅰⅱⅲ本片改編自日本推理小說家江戶川亂步1928年的同名小說。法國教授阿歷克斯·法約爾(伯努瓦·馬吉梅 Beno?t Magimel 飾)是研究神秘的日本黑暗偵探小說家平田一郎的專家
。阿歷克斯自己的偵探小說在日本出版后取得了巨大成功
,受邀來到京都參加宣傳活動,他告訴出版社的本田(島岡現(xiàn) Gen Shimaoka 飾)他非常想拜見平田一郎,但幾番努力均不得法。在一次晚宴中,阿歷克斯認識了京都知名藝伎玉子(源利華 Lika Minamoto 飾) ,不禁陷入情網(wǎng)。玉子告訴阿歷克斯自己的舊情人正是平田一郎。為情所動的阿歷克斯全力幫助玉子排除危難,卻沒想到自己正陷入一場出人意外的陰謀……本片被提名2008年威尼斯電影節(jié)金獅獎。The writer and college professor, Alexandre Fayard, researches and gives lectures about the gruesome literary work of the mysterious Japanese writer Shundei Oe, considered by him to be the master of manipulation. In his underground detective novels, evil always prevails and Shundei Oe has never allowed anyone to see his face. His only image available is a frightening picture on the back of his best-sellers. Alex travels to Kyoto to promote his successful detective story that follows the same style of the Shundei Oe but with a positive message instead. He meets with his publisher, Ken Honda, from the publishing house Hakubunkan. While in an interview in a TV show, Alex receives a phone call from Shundei Oe that advises him to return to Paris, and Alex believes it is a marketing strategy of Ken. Then Alex and Ken go to a tea house where he meets the Masochist geisha Tamao, and Alex has a crush on her. Tamao discloses to Alex that she knows Shundei Oe and his real name is Hichiro Irata; further they were lovers when she rejected his proposal many years ago. From this moment on, Hichiro Irata loathed her and vanished. When she got pregnant by the wealthy and powerful business man Ryuji Mogi, Shundei Oe returned and stalked her. Alex decides to help Tamao and Ryuji Mogi against the menace of the deranged writer, and his mind is blurred between fiction and reality in dreadful nightmares.