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Summary

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

Details

Release Date: October 29, 1977

Runtime: 151 minutes

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Rating: 6.7/10 (9 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

  • Kenichi Hagiwara

    Kenichi Hagiwara

    Tatsuya Terada

  • Mayumi Ogawa

    Mayumi Ogawa

    Miyako Mori

  • Tsutomu Yamazaki

    Tsutomu Yamazaki

    Hisashi Tajimi

  • Yōko Yamamoto

    Yōko Yamamoto

    Haruyo Tajimi

  • Kiyoshi Atsumi

    Kiyoshi Atsumi

    Kosuke Kindaichi

  • Etsuko Ichihara

    Etsuko Ichihara

    Tajimi Kotake

  • Ryoko Nakano

    Ryoko Nakano

    Tsuruko Igawa

  • Yoshi Katō

    Yoshi Katō

    Igawa Ushimatsu

  • Hisashi Igawa

    Hisashi Igawa

    Kanji Igawa

  • Masami Shimojō

    Masami Shimojō

    Kudo

  • Takuya Fujioka

    Takuya Fujioka

    Kuno

  • Jun Hamamura

    Jun Hamamura

    Mori Sokichi

  • Torahiko Hamada

    Torahiko Hamada

    Taichiro Yoshioka

  • Junko Natsu

    Junko Natsu

    Kazue

  • Hatsuo Yamaya

    Hatsuo Yamaya

  • Hideji Ōtaki

    Hideji Ōtaki

    Suwa

  • Tokue Hanazawa

    Tokue Hanazawa

    Isogawa

  • Atom Shimojo

    Atom Shimojo

    Arai

  • Katsuhiko Watabiki

    Katsuhiko Watabiki

  • Isao Natsuyagi

    Isao Natsuyagi

  • Kunie Tanaka

    Kunie Tanaka

  • Isao Hashimoto

    Isao Hashimoto

  • Yoshio Inaba

    Yoshio Inaba