The Lady Vampire

Story

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...

Director

Nobuo Nakagawa

Writers

Katsuyoshi Nakatsu, Shin Nakazawa, Sotoo Tachibana

Language

Japanese

Country

Japan

Release date

7 March 1959

Ensemble

Cast

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  Shigeru Amachi

  Nobutaka Takenaka

• Keinosuke Wada

  Tamio Oki

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  Junko Ikeuchi

  Itsuko Matsumura

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  Yōko Mihara

  Miwako Matsumura

• Akira Nakamura

  Shigekatsu Matsumura

• Kan Sugi

  Wada, the butler

• Den Kunikata

  Hoshino

• Tsutomu Wakui

  Pygmy

• Masao Takamatsu

  Dr. Sakakibara

• Hiroshi Ayukawa

  Tanigawa

• Kyôko Yashiro

  Tomoko

• Yōko Mifune