Village of Eight Gravestones

Oct 29, 1977

2h 31m

★ 7.0

Overview

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

Genres

Thriller

Horror

Mystery

Production Companies

Shochiku

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Cast

Tatsuya Terada

Kenichi Hagiwara

Tatsuya Terada (Young)

Hidetaka Yoshioka

Kosuke Kindaichi

Kiyoshi Atsumi

Miyako Mori

Mayumi Ogawa

Hisashi Tajimi

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Haruyo Tajimi

Yōko Yamamoto

Tajimi Kotake

Etsuko Ichihara

Tajimi Koume

Ninako Yamaguchi

Tsuruko Igawa

Ryoko Nakano

Igawa Ushimatsu

Yoshi Katō

Kanji Igawa

Hisashi Igawa

Kudo

Masami Shimojō

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