The Inugamis (2006)

Original title

犬神家の一族

Directed by

Kon Ichikawa

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 14m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A family of wealthy siblings gathers for a reading of their patriarch's will. His death sets off a series of suspicious events.

mysterioussuspensefuldarkstylizedfamily-drivensomberdeliberateatmospheric

What happens

The Inugamis (犬神家の一族, Inugami-ke no ichizoku (a.k.a. Murder of the Inugami Clan)) is a 2006 Japanese drama film written and directed by Kon Ichikawa. It is a remake of his own 1976 film The Inugami Family, and would prove to be Ichikawa's final film. A few minutes' footage of Ichikawa at work directing can be seen in the 2006 documentary The Kon Ichikawa Story. The film was entered into the 29th Moscow International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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