The 8-Tomb Village
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- Movie: The 8-Tomb Village
- Romaji: Yatsu haka-mura
- Japanese: 八つ墓村
- Director: Kon Ichikawa
- Writer: Kon Ichikawa, Ikuko Oyabu, Seishi Yokomizo (novel)
- Producer: Koji Hashimoto
- Cinematographer: Yukio Isohata
- Release Date: October 26, 1996
- Runtime: 126 min
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
400 hundred years ago the inhabitants of the village of Yatsuhaka murdered 8 samurai rebels, whom they were actually helping to hide away, afraid of what the Shogunate would do to them. Before dying one the samurai puts a curse on the village. Strange things start to happen so the villagers decided to erect 8 graves for the murdered samurai to appease their anger. Then four hundred years later the head of Tajimi family and head of the village goes mad and starts killing almost everyone in the village. 25 years later his eldest son is poisoned. Kindaichi Yousuke detective is hired by the family's lawyer as everyone in the village believes is the curse of the samurai again.
Notes
- Based on the 1951 novel by Seishi Yokomizo.
- Etsushi Toyokawa won the Japan Academy Awards for Best Actor for his performance as Koichi Kindaichi.
- Related titles:
- The Inugami Family | Inugamike no ichizoku (1976)
- The 8-Tomb Village | Yatsu haka-mura (1996)
- The Inugamis | Inugamike no ichizoku (2006)
- The Queen Bee | Jyooubachi (Fuji TV / 2006)
- Akuma ga kitarite fue wo fuku (Fuji TV / 2007)
- Akuma no Temari Uta (Fuji TV / 2009)
Cast
- Etsushi Toyokawa - Koichi Kindaichi
- Yu ko Asano - Miyako Mori
- Yu Ji Chin Ye
- Hisashi Igawa - Lawyer Suwa
- Renji Ishibashi - Priest
- Saburo Ishikura - Tokunosuke
- Takeshi Kato - Detective Todoroki
- Ittoku Kishibe - Yozo, Hisaya and Shozaemon Tajimi (plays 3 parts)
- Kyoko Kishida - Kotake and Koume Tajimi (plays 2 parts)
- Mai Kitajima - Noriko Satomura
- Akiji Kobayashi - Head of a factory
- Shigeru Koyama - Doctor
- Hisako Manda - Haruyo Tajimi
- Kayoko Shiraishi - Nun
- Kazuya Takahashi - Tatsuya Terada
- Shin Takuma - Shintaro Satomura
- Tsuyoshi Ujiki - Sengoku, police
- Hideko Yoshida - Hide
- Ma Sun Yu
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