is a 1960 Japanese
horror film
Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes.
Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apoca ...
directed by
Tokuzō Tanaka
was a Japanese film director. He is well known for directing Zatoichi series and Nemuri Kyōshirō series films.
Biography
Tanaka graduated from Kwansei Gakuin University. In 1948, he joined the Daiei Film, Daiei studio and started working as ...
and produced by
Daiei Film
Daiei Film Co. Ltd. ( Kyūjitai: Shinjitai: ''Daiei Eiga Kabushiki Kaisha'') was a Japanese film studio. Founded in 1942 as Dai Nippon Film Co., Ltd., it was one of the major studios during the postwar Golden Age of Japanese cinema, producing ...
. The film is about Samurai warriors joining forces to defeat a shape-changing supernatural creature.
Cast
Release
''The Demon of Mount Oe'' was released in Japan on April 27, 1960.
The film was released on VHS in Japan by Daiei on December 12, 1997 and was released on DVD by
Kadokawa Shoten
, formerly , is a Japanese publisher and division of Kadokawa Future Publishing based in Tokyo, Japan. It became an internal division of Kadokawa Corporation on October 1, 2013. Kadokawa publishes manga, light novels, manga anthology magazines su ...
on January 24, 2014.
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1960 films
1960s Japanese-language films
Japanese horror films
Japanese fantasy drama films
Daiei Film tokusatsu films
Daiei Film films
1960 horror films
Films directed by Tokuzō Tanaka
1960s Japanese films
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