Summary
The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.
Details
Release Date: April 11, 1956
Runtime: 89 minutes
Genres: Horror, Mystery
Original Language: JA
Rating: ⭐ 4.0/10 (4 votes)
Kosuke Kindaichi Collection
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
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
A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.
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
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
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
A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later.
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
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
A ghost man with his face hidden entirely by bandages is killing beautiful nude models. Detective Kindaichi investigates.
The Vampire Moth
The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.
Devil's Nursery Rhyme
1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.
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Cast
Ryō Ikebe
Kosuke Kindaichi
Asami Kuji
Asaji Fumiyo
Kyōko Anzai
Sugino Yumiko
Eijirō Tōno
Tetsuzô Ibuki / Shunsaku Etô
Ichirō Arishima
Tôru Murakoshi
Minoru Chiaki
Sango Kawase
Tatsuo Saitō
Shûji Nagaoka
Toki Shiozawa
Kayoko Takita
Chieko Nakakita
Tsuruko Higeta
Yoshiko Miyata
Matsuzaki
Mitsue Tachibana
Hidaka Yuri
Mayumi Shirabato
Senkichi Ōmura
Akio Kusama
Takuzō Kumagai