Village of Eight Gravestones

Yatsuhaka-mura

Japan

1977

151 Min

Color

2.35:1

Japanese

Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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PROD Yoshitaro Nomura, Akira Oda, Shigemi Sugisaki

SCR Shinobu Hashimoto, Seishi Yokomizo

CAST Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Mayumi Ogawa, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yoko Yamamoto, Etsuko Ichihara, Ninako Yamaguchi, Ryoko Nakano, Yoshi Katô, Hisashi Igawa, Masami Shimojô, Takuya Fujioka, Jun Hamamura, Torahiko Hamada, Junko Natsu, Hatsuo Yamaya, Junko Toda, Hideji Ôtaki, Tokue Hanazawa, Atomu Shimojo, Katsuhiko Watabiki, Isao Natsuyagi, Kunie Tanaka, Isao Hashimoto, Yoshio Inaba, Shinobu Asaji, Mari Okamoto, Kenichi Kato, Kazuhiko Kasai, Kikue Akizuki, Goro Kataoka, Kenji Yasunaga, Sanpeita Mori, Yuzo Mikawa, Motoharu Tamura, Matsuko Shiga, Daizô Kuramitsu, Hideo Fukuhara, Kyôsuke Matsunami, Naoko Muraoka, Shizuo Namiki, Kanjirô Ôsugi, Sumio Tanaka, Kôei Yamamoto, Sumao Ishihara, Masatoshi Furusawa, Kurao Satô, Akihiko Hanyû, Seiichirô Miwa, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Morio Kazama, Satoko Nomiyama, Kayoko Minowa, Kibaji Tankobo, Yuki Arasa, Toshimi Matsumiya, Chieko Sôda, Hisayo Nakazato, Teruko Iida, Hiroshi Tokita, Shigeo Katô, Katsuyuki Ito, Sen Yano, Yokichi Goto, Yasuo Kanechika, Hirô Oikawa, Tsutomu Harada, Machiko Aoki, Nobuoki Furukawa, Kenichi Matsuno, Ryôji Hata, Seiichi Suzuki, Tsukasa Moriyama, Hirokazu Takeda, Takumi Kitagawa, Jun Kajima, Naomi Mita, Yasuyuki Kachi, Taku Kido, Kunio Sato, Hidekazu Yamaguchi, Kiyoshi Yamamoto, Kenji Shiiya, Tetsutaro Sugata, Akira Otani, Kon Hirata, Ushio Tachihara, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Yôzô Hara, Kaoru Endô, Mitsuru Yamazaki, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Yoko Shimada

MUSIC Yasushi Akutagawa

Synopsis

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. —IMDb

Director

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

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John

20Sep12

This is the best of the Nomura films I've seen, which isn't saying much, but it's a well-done, thorough mystery that's easy to get into, despite having this weird quality of the "mysterious feminine" which gets annoying in movies. Makes me want to see Inugami Family, '76, and some of the other adaptations from the Kindaichi series.