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Summary

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.

Details

Release Date: August 27, 1977

Runtime: 141 minutes

Genres: Mystery, Horror

Rating: 7.0/10 (2 votes)


Kosuke Kindaichi Collection

  • The Inugami Family

    The Inugami Family

    When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pitting blood against blood.

  • Lullaby to Kill

    Lullaby to Kill

    Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolved murder. Then some murders happen. Kindaichi must find out about the past in order to reveal who the murderer is.

  • Island of Hell

    Island of Hell

    A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.

  • Queen Bee

    Queen Bee

    To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country estate, family secrets and lies dating back several generations must be sorted out once and for all.

  • The House of Hanging

    The House of Hanging

    This time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence to divert Kousuke's attention on the case. Suspicion and doubt clouds Kousuke's mind.

  • Death at an Old Mansion

    Death at an Old Mansion

    A woman and her bridegroom are found murdered in their bed the day after their wedding. It had snowed overnight and the killer left no tracks. It is up to an amateur detective to figure out what happened. Carefully and systematically, he pieces together the clues in this locked room mystery.

  • The 8-Tomb Village

    The 8-Tomb Village

    A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later.

  • Village of Eight Gravestones

    Village of Eight Gravestones

    The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of novel by Seishi Yokomizo

  • The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi

    The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi

    Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.

  • Ghost Man

    Ghost Man

    A ghost man with his face hidden entirely by bandages is killing beautiful nude models. Detective Kindaichi investigates.

  • The Vampire Moth

    The Vampire Moth

    The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.

  • Devil's Nursery Rhyme

    Devil's Nursery Rhyme

    1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.


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Cast

  • Koji Ishizaka

    Koji Ishizaka

    Kosuke Kindaichi

  • Yōko Tsukasa

    Yōko Tsukasa

    Katsuno

  • Reiko Ōhara

    Reiko Ōhara

    Sanae

  • Mitsuko Kusabue

    Mitsuko Kusabue

    Osayo

  • Kiwako Taichi

    Kiwako Taichi

    Tomoe

  • Yuko Asano

    Yuko Asano

    Tsukiyo Kito

  • Ryoko Sakaguchi

    Ryoko Sakaguchi

    Oshichi

  • Takeshi Katō

    Takeshi Katō

    Inspector Todoroki

  • Hideji Ōtaki

    Hideji Ōtaki

    Gihei Kito

  • Tatsuo Matsumura

    Tatsuo Matsumura

    Chinese herbal doctor Koan

  • Tsunehiko Kamijô

    Tsunehiko Kamijô

    Officer Shimizu

  • Shinnosuke Ikehata

    Shinnosuke Ikehata

    Shozo Ukai

  • Taketoshi Naitō

    Taketoshi Naitō

    Yosamatsu Kito

  • Yoshio Inaba

    Yoshio Inaba

    Village head Araki

  • Noboru Mitani

    Noboru Mitani

    Demobilized soldier

  • Kazunaga Tsuji

    Kazunaga Tsuji

    Detective Bando

  • Shuichi Ikeda

    Shuichi Ikeda

    Ryotaku

  • Akiji Kobayashi

    Akiji Kobayashi

    Takezo

  • Keiko Oginome

    Keiko Oginome

    Katsuno (child)

  • Yutaka Nakano

    Yutaka Nakano

  • Norihei Miki

    Norihei Miki

    Barber Seijuro

  • Eijirō Tōno

    Eijirō Tōno

    Kaemon Kito

  • Shin Saburi

    Shin Saburi

    Priest Ryonen