Horror · Japan · 1959 · 1h 18m

The Lady Vampire

女吸血鬼

The Lady Vampire poster
Director
Nobuo Nakagawa
Cast
Shigeru Amachi as Nobutaka Takenaka Keinosuke Wada as Tamio Oki Junko Ikeuchi as Itsuko Matsumura Yōko Mihara as Miwako Matsumura Akira Nakamura as Shigekatsu Matsumura Kan Sugi as Wada, the butler
Crew
Yoshimi Hirano — Director of Photography Toshio Goto — Editor Hisashi Iuchi — Original Music Composer Shin Nakazawa — Screenplay Katsuyoshi Nakatsu — Screenplay Sotoo Tachibana — Novel
Synopsis

Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who disappeared twenty years ago when she was just a baby. No one knows the first thing about the artist who painted it, but he goes by the name Shiro Sofue, and he's always wearing shades in the daytime...

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Mood & Themes
vampirestolen moneyescaped convictforgeryevil dwarf
Key Collaborators
Nobuo Nakagawa Director Yoshimi Hirano Director of Photography Toshio Goto Editor Hisashi Iuchi Original Music Composer Shin Nakazawa Screenplay Katsuyoshi Nakatsu Screenplay Sotoo Tachibana Novel
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