The Inugamis (1976)

Original title

犬神家の一族

Directed by

Kon Ichikawa

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 26m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 37 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy family patriarch dies and leaves his fortune to an outsider. This triggers a series of murders among the Inugami family as they fight over the inheritance.

mysterioustensesuspensefulclassicintricateslow-burndark

What happens

The Inugami Family (犬神家の一族, Inugami-ke no Ichizoku) is a 1976 Japanese mystery film directed by Kon Ichikawa. It is based on the novel The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo. The film is the first in Kon Ichikawa's and Kōji Ishizaka's Kindaichi Series. The soundtrack is composed by Yuji Ohno. Ichikawa remade the film in 2006 as The Inugamis. Murders start taking place within the very rich Inugami family in connection to a will left by Sahei Inugami, the family patriarch to Tamayo, an outsider. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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