is a 1956 Japanese film directed by

Nobuo Nakagawa was a Japanese film director, most famous for the stylized, folk tale-influenced horror films he made in the 1950s and 1960s. Career Born in Kyoto, Nakagawa was early on influenced by proletarian literature and wrote amateur film reviews to th ...

. The film is about a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask. It has been described as the first Japanese vampire film, but in which the creature is revealed not to be supernatural, similar to '' The Cat and the Canary''.

Plot

Fumiyo Asabu, a designer who organizes the Asaya association, lived with the genius design painter Ibuki during his stay in France. Discarded and returned to Japan. The design allowed her to earn the prestige of a prestigious designer. When Ibuki came to Japan following Fumiyo, I met Fumiyo's patron Nagaoka and revealed the secret. When Nagaoka bought the rest of the design from Ibuki, he occasionally turned into a phantom and called for Bunyo and sold it for a fortune. Nagaoka wanted to use this method to wake up Fumiyo and stop the false designer life. Ibuki calls for Bunyo to the insect brother of Eto, an twin entomologist and entomologist, and urges him to be reconciled by violence, but is instead killed by Bunyo. Toru Murakoshi, a manager of the Asayakai and a murderer who has a murderous illness, revealed his true nature when he knew of the murder of Bunyo and threatened her to become her own woman. Then, with the luck that no one knew Ibuki's death, Toru, who was transformed into a werewolf Ibuki, committed a brutal crime. In this way, three out of the seven Asaya Kai-only models were killed, and finally Nagaoka. Bunyo was also overwhelmed by Tohru and killed his competitor, Tsuruko Kushita. On the other hand, Eto, who does not know Ibuki's death, thought that the crimes that occurred one after another were the work of his younger brother Ibuki, and hid the three models who were the victims of the next victim, but he also became a werewolf there. Tohru appears and Eto is killed. Toru ordered Fumiyo to bring in a seventh model, Yumiko Sugino, and tried to kill the four models together. Kazusuke Kaneda, a detective who was chasing a murderer in a crisis, appeared and the four were saved. Bunyo fell to Toru's pistol, and Toru, who fled to the steel frame of the building under construction, crashed and died when a criminal detective appeared as a group of police officers. Yumiko was struck by the lover's newspaper reporter Kawase.

Release

''Kyuketsuga'' was released in Japan on 11 April 1956 where it was distributed by

Toho is a Japanese film, theatre production and distribution company. It has its headquarters in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Osaka-based Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. Outside of Japan, it is best known as the producer an ...

. As of 2008, a release of the film in the United States remained undetermined. A 35mm English subtitled print is held at the Pacific Film Archive.

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* 1956 films Japanese horror thriller films Films directed by Nobuo Nakagawa Films based on Japanese novels 1950s Japanese films {{1950s-Japan-film-stub