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The Demon of Mount Oe (1960)

The Demon of Mount Oe poster
Original title
大江山酒天童子
Directed by
Tokuzō Tanaka
Genre
horror, fantasy
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 54m
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 13 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of samurai warriors band together to fight a shape-shifting supernatural creature that terrorizes the land. The film follows their quest to stop this demonic entity on a mountain.

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What happens

The Demon of Mount Oe (Japanese: 大江山酒天童子, Hepburn: Ōeyama Shuten Dōji; lit. 'Shuten Doji of Mount Oe') is a 1960 Japanese horror film directed by Tokuzō Tanaka and produced by Daiei Film. The film is about Samurai warriors joining forces to defeat a shape-changing supernatural creature. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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