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ese film directed by

Kon Ichikawa was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His work displays a vast range in genre and style, from the anti-war films '' The Burmese Harp'' (1956) and '' Fires on the Plain'' (1959), to the documentary ''Tokyo Olympiad'' (1965), which won t ...

. The film is the first in

's and

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's Kindaichi Series. Ichikawa remade the film in 2006 as '' The Inugamis''. The soundtrack is composed by

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. Murders take place within the very rich Inugami family in connection with a disputed will.

Cast

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as Tamayo Nonomiya *Teruhiko Aoi as Sukekiyo Inugami / Shizuma Aonuma *

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as Matsuko Inugami *

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as Umeko Inugami *Ryoko Sakaguchi as Haru *

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as Suketake Inugami *

Akiji Kobayashi , sometimes credited as Shōji Kobayashi, was a Japanese actor. He attended Nihon University College of Art, but withdrew before completing his degree and joined the Haiyuza Theatre Company in 1949. He made his film debut with ''Satsujin Yogisha' ...

as Kôkichi Inugami *

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as The Koto Player *

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as Oyama *

Eitaro Ozawa , also credited as Sakae Ozawa (小沢栄), was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1935 and 1988, directed by notable filmmakers such as Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, Keisuke Kinoshita and Kaneto Shindō. Selected fi ...

as Kyozo Furudate * Takeshi Katō as Detective Tachibana *

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as Sahei Inugami

Awards and nominations

1st

Hochi Film Award The are film-specific prizes awarded by the ''Hochi Shimbun , previously known as , is a Japanese-language daily sports newspaper. In 2002, it had a circulation of a million copies a day. It is an affiliate newspaper of ''Yomiuri Shimbun''. ...

* Won: Best Film 19th Blue Ribbon Awards * Won Best Supporting Actress

References

External links

* 1976 films Films directed by Kon Ichikawa 1970s Japanese-language films Toho films Films with screenplays by Kon Ichikawa Films scored by Yuji Ohno 1970s Japanese films {{1970s-Japan-film-stub