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The Lady Vampire (1959)
Directed by Nobuo Nakagawa
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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…
Length 78 minutes
Actors
Shigeru Amachi | Keinosuke Wada | Junko Ikeuchi | Yôko Mihara | Akira Nakamura | Hiroshi Sugi | Den Kunikata | Tsutomu Wakui | Masao Takamatsu | Hiroshi Ayukawa | Kyôko Yashiro | Yôko Mifune | Midori Chikuma | Yuko Mandai | Keiko Hamano | Fujie Satsuki | Baku Mizuhara | Hiroshi Izumida | Yûzô Harumi | Eiichi Nobuo | Tatsuhiro Oka | Yoji Naruto | Hiroaki Kurahashi | Shogo Sakane | Shôzaburô Date | Ken Kawahara | Jotaro Yuki | Tôru Chiba | Kazuki Nishi | Yonosuke Akiyama | Yôzô Takamura | Takamitsu Watanabe | Shûji Kawabe | Ayako Ueno | Akiko Ono
Viewing History (seen 2 times)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/27/2020 | TV | Broadcast | Other | 6 stars |
| 10/15/2018 | Computer | Broadcast | Other | 6 stars |
| (Average) 6 stars |
Viewing Notes
Been waiting for Daikaiju TV to dive into horror this month (okay they did present the Bloodthirsty trilogy for one night last week) and this week they’re going for it with a Universal Monsters theme paired with a Japanese counterpart feature. Tonight was THE LADY VAMPIRE and Tod Browning’s Dracula.
Very pleased bc this is another one I hadn’t seen and it’s definitely an interesting take on the Dracula story. The premise in this one the head vampire has transformed a young woman who shares the same bloodline into a vampire. She reappears 20 years later and that’s how this movie kicks off. Weirdly these vampires are also daywalkers and only get their fangs on when exposed to moonlight.
Very odd but certainly makes for a different take on the mythology. While not a great film still a worthy entry that sits well between the Universal stories and Hammer films that kicked off at the same time.
Neat that the gallery is set in Ueno where many of the art museums are located. Also comical that the Dracula character submitted his painting to the art contest.
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