The Inugami Family
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Profile
- Movie: The Inugami Family
- Romaji: Inugamike no ichizoku
- Japanese: 犬神家の一族
- Director: Kon Ichikawa
- Writer: Shinya Hidaka, Kon Ichikawa, Norio Nagata, Seishi Yokomizo (novel)
- Producer: Kiichi Ichikawa, Haruki Kadokawa
- Cinematographer: Kiyoshi Hasegawa
- Release Date: October 16, 1976
- Runtime: 146 min.
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Based on Seishi Yokomizo's masterpiece mystery novel, "Inugami Family" is the hugely successful classic horror film directed by Kon Ichikawa. It tells a story of a strange will left by a wealthy man which reveals a peculiarly twisted set of relationships and triggers four deaths and several other murder attempts.
Notes
- 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
- Koji Ishizaka - Kohsuke Kindaichi
- Mieko Takamine - Matsuko Inugami
- Teruhiko Aoi - Sukekiyo Inugami / Shizuma Aonuma
- Takeo Chii - Satake Inugami
- Izumi Hara - Osono, Matsuko's mother
- Akiko Kana - Kikuno Aonuma
- Ryunosuke Kaneda - Toranosuke Inugami
- Takeshi Kato - Tachibana, A chief of police
- Akira Kawaguchi - Sayoko Inugami
- Ko Kawaguchi - Sachi Inugami
- Kyoko Kishida - Teacher of koto (Japanese harp)
- Akiji Kobayashi - Kokichi Inugami
- Mitsuko Kusabue - Umeko Inugami
- Norihei Miki - Kyubei, Kashiwaya's owner
- Rentaro Mikuni - Sahei Inugami
- Noboru Mitani - Fujisaki
- Hideji Otaki - Oyama, Shinto priest
- Eitaro Ozawa - Furudate, lawyer
- Yuko Ozeki - Kikuno Aonuma
- Ryoko Sakaguchi - Haru, Maid
- Miki Sanjo - Takeko Inugami
- Yoko Shimada - Tamayo Nonomiya
- Minoru Terada - Saruzo
- Mancho Tsuji - Detective Inoue
