{"id":17322,"date":"2025-03-06T21:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T02:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17322"},"modified":"2025-03-03T13:49:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T18:49:36","slug":"dogra-magra-1988-toshio-matsumoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17322","title":{"rendered":"Dogra Magra (1988, Toshio Matsumoto)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12022\">Funeral Parade of Roses<\/a><\/em> guy two decades later has turned to narrative&#8230; but it&#8217;s super-meta-psycho-narrative, at least.  In the 1920s an institutionalized amnesiac is given conflicting stories by a hairy Dr. Detective and a bald Wacky Doctor, and instead of piecing together the real story, he either goes on a killing spree, or doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><em>Which of these doctors would you trust:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/dogra1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/dogra2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Labyrinth of Dreams<\/em> was based on the same author&#8217;s work, and I wondered if the novel was an influence on <em>Shutter Island<\/em>.  The boy went on to be a voice actor, most notably dubbing Leo in <em>Titanic<\/em>, and the not-bald doctor\/detective Hideo Murota is in all the Kinji Fukasaku movies.  Unsurprisingly this cinematographer also worked with <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7298\">Terayama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/dogra4.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/dogra3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Funeral Parade of Roses guy two decades later has turned to narrative&#8230; but it&#8217;s super-meta-psycho-narrative, at least. In the 1920s an institutionalized amnesiac is given conflicting stories by a hairy Dr. Detective and a bald Wacky Doctor, and instead of piecing together the real story, he either goes on a killing spree, or doesn&#8217;t. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,1348,1127,36,1422,265,2274],"class_list":["post-17322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-amnesia","tag-asylum","tag-japan","tag-mad-scientist","tag-meta","tag-toshio-matsumoto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17377,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17322\/revisions\/17377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}