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The Lady Vampire (1959)

Directed by Nobuo Nakagawa

Horror

Overview

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)

Viewing Notes

DKUTV did their “Japan does Universal Horror” night with three films including this one about a Dracula type who wants a woman to be his wife. It’s really weird and goes to some wild places in the story including a swashbuckling finale.

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