The Old Lock (1977)

Original title

舊鎖

Directed by

Yao Feng-pan

Genre

horror film

Country

Taiwan

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A film based on a real murder case from Taiwan's Japanese colonial period. A government clerk and his concubine plot to kill his wife.

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What happens

《舊鎖》（英語：The Old Lock）是一部1977年的臺灣恐怖片，由姚鳳磐導演，王釧如、岳陽以及秦夢領銜主演，其故事靈感源自臺灣日治時期交通局書記吉村恆次郎與妾合謀的基隆殺妻案。這部影片的別名《殘燈幽靈三更天》更廣為人知，且該片經常和同由王釧如主演的《古厝夜語》（又名《招魂》，一度誤植「古厝夜雨」）混淆，幾乎所有網路上的資料在介紹《殘》片的故事內容時，給出的卻是《古》片的劇情；而在介紹《古》片時，給出的又是《殘》片的劇情，例如豆瓣就是如此。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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