The 8-Tomb Village
Yatsuhaka-mura
A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later. Despite the Asian setting, it has a sort of strong sense of the gothic that brings to mind the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Direction
Screenplay
Cast
Etsushi Toyokawa
Koichi Kindaichi
Yûko Asano
Miyako Mori
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Yu Ji Chin Ye
Hisashi Igawa
Lawyer Suwa
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Renji Ishibashi
Priest
Saburô Ishikura
Tokunosuke
Takeshi Katō
Detective Todoroki
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Setsuko Kawaguchi
Ittoku Kishibe
Yozo, Hisaya and Shozaemon Tajimi (plays 3 parts)
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Kyôko Kishida
Kotake and Koume Tajimi (plays 2 parts)
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Kensaku Tanikawa
Composer
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Yukio Isohata
Cinematographer