The Demon

Kichiku

Japan

1978

110 Min

Color

1.85:1

Japanese

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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PROD Yoshiki Nomura, Yoshitaro Nomura

SCR Masato Ide, Seicho Matsumoto

CAST Shima Iwashita, Ken Ogata, Mayumi Ogawa, Eimei Esumi, Jun Hamamura

Japanese director Yoshitaro Nomura adapts another suspenseful novel by popular mystery writer Seicho Matsumoto. The story arc charts the thick web of entanglements that exist among a married couple, the husband’s mistress and a guileless young boy who finds himself helplessly caught between the adults’ treacherous manipulations. This intricate and compelling film stars Shima Iwashita, Ken Ogata and Mayumi Ogawa. —Netflix

Director

Yoshitaro Nomura

Yoshitaro Nomura, Japanese film director (b. April 23, 1919, Tokyo, Japan—d. April 8, 2005, Tokyo), pioneered the film noir genre in Japanese cinema. The son of film director Hotei Nomura, Yoshitaro Nomura signed with the Shochiku film studio when he was 22 years old and made his directorial debut with Hato (Pigeon) in 1953. Though he made samurai dramas and musicals, he was best known for his film noirs, including his masterpiece Suna no utsuwa (1974; Castle of Sand), a thriller that follows the investigation of a murdered police officer; it was considered among the finest films ever made in Japan. —Britannica