The Inugami Family
1976 Japanese film
- October 16, 1976 (1976-10-16)
The Inugami Family (犬神家の一族, Inugami-ke no Ichizoku) is a 1976 Japanese mystery film directed by Kon Ichikawa. It is based on the novel The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo. The film is the first in Kon Ichikawa's and Kōji Ishizaka's Kindaichi Series. The soundtrack is composed by Yuji Ohno. Ichikawa remade the film in 2006 as The Inugamis.[1][2]
Murders take place within the very rich Inugami family in connection with a disputed will.
Cast
- Kōji Ishizaka as Kosuke Kindaichi
- Yoko Shimada as Tamayo Nonomiya
- Teruhiko Aoi as Sukekiyo Inugami / Shizuma Aonuma
- Mieko Takamine as Matsuko Inugami
- Mitsuko Kusabue as Umeko Inugami
- Ryoko Sakaguchi as Haru
- Takeo Chii as Suketake Inugami
- Akiji Kobayashi as Kôkichi Inugami
- Kyōko Kishida as The Koto Player
- Hideji Ōtaki as Oyama
- Eitaro Ozawa as Kyozo Furudate
- Takeshi Katō as Detective Tachibana
- Rentarō Mikuni as Sahei Inugami
Awards and nominations
1st Hochi Film Award[3]
- Won: Best Film
19th Blue Ribbon Awards
- Won Best Supporting Actress Mieko Takamine[2]
See also
- Queen Bee, the fourth film in Ichikawa and Ishizaka's Kindaichi series.
- Byoinzaka no Kubikukuri no Ie, the fifth film in the series.
References
External links
- The Inugami Family at IMDb
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Films directed by Kon Ichikawa
- A Thousand and One Nights with Toho (1947)
- The Heart (1955)
- The Burmese Harp (1956)
- The Hole (1957)
- Conflagration (1958)
- Odd Obsession (1959)
- Fires on the Plain (1959)
- A Woman's Testament (1960)
- Her Brother (1960)
- Ten Dark Women (1961)
- Being Two Isn't Easy (1962)
- An Actor's Revenge (1963)
- Alone Across the Pacific (1963)
- Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
- Topo Gigio and the Missile War (1967)
- To Love Again (1971)
- The Wanderers (1973)
- Visions of Eight (1973)
- The Inugami Family (1976)
- Queen Bee (1978)
- Phoenix (1978)
- The House of Hanging (1979)
- Ancient City (1980)
- Lonely Heart (1981)
- The Makioka Sisters (1983)
- Ohan (1984)
- The Burmese Harp (1985)
- Princess from the Moon (1987)
- The Return of Monjirō Kogarashi (1993)
- 47 Ronin (1994)
- Dora-heita (2000)
- The Inugamis (2006)
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