Death at an Old Mansion (1975)

Original title

本陣殺人事件

Directed by

Yoichi Takabayashi

Genre

horror film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 49m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A detective investigates a locked-room murder at a remote mansion. The film follows the unraveling of a family's dark secrets.

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What happens

Death at an Old Mansion (Japanese: 本陣殺人事件, Hepburn: Honjin satsujin jiken) is a 1975 Japanese horror film directed by Yoichi Takabayashi, based on the mystery novel The Honjin Murders (1946) by Seishi Yokomizo. It was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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