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'''''Kaidan Semushi Otoko''''' (怪談せむし男), also known under the English titles ''The Ghost of the Hunchback'' and ''House of Terrors'', is a 1965 Japanese horror film produced and released by Toei<ref name="R1">Kinema Junposha K.K. ''via'' Eiga.com, http://eiga.com/movie/70270/</ref>. It stars Ko Nishimura, Yuko Kusunoki, Kazuo Kitamura and Shinjiro Ehara and was directed by Hajime Sato<ref name="R1" />. The plot concerns a woman, Yoshie Munakata (Kusunoki), who learns of her mentally ill husband's death that the man led a sort of double life in a remote and luxurious villa, tended by a hunchbacked caretaker (Nishimura) who is not what he seems to be. | '''''Kaidan Semushi Otoko''''' (怪談せむし男), also known under the English titles ''The Ghost of the Hunchback'' and ''House of Terrors'', is a 1965 Japanese horror film produced and released by Toei<ref name="R1">Kinema Junposha K.K. ''via'' Eiga.com, http://eiga.com/movie/70270/</ref>. It stars Ko Nishimura, Yuko Kusunoki, Kazuo Kitamura and Shinjiro Ehara and was directed by Hajime Sato<ref name="R1" />. The plot concerns a woman, Yoshie Munakata (Kusunoki), who learns of her mentally ill husband's death that the man led a sort of double life in a remote and luxurious villa, tended by a hunchbacked caretaker (Nishimura) who is not what he seems to be. | ||
Revision as of 19:48, 9 January 2023
Japanese advertising poster.
Status: Found
Date found: 10 Jan 2023
Found by: Toei
Kaidan Semushi Otoko (怪談せむし男), also known under the English titles The Ghost of the Hunchback and House of Terrors, is a 1965 Japanese horror film produced and released by Toei[1]. It stars Ko Nishimura, Yuko Kusunoki, Kazuo Kitamura and Shinjiro Ehara and was directed by Hajime Sato[1]. The plot concerns a woman, Yoshie Munakata (Kusunoki), who learns of her mentally ill husband's death that the man led a sort of double life in a remote and luxurious villa, tended by a hunchbacked caretaker (Nishimura) who is not what he seems to be.
In 1966[2], a year after the film was released in its native Japan, Kaidan Semushi Otoko was picked up for distribution by Filmar, an Italian company. Filmar changed the film's title to Il Pozzo di Satana (Satan's Pit) and produced a relatively faithful Italian-language dub, changing some of the principal characters' names. The Italian-language dialogue was written by Franco dal Cer. Filmar also added new titles to the film, giving the cast and primary crew English pseudonyms.
The Filmar version of the film has been released on both a rare VHS and a widely-available DVD; before the DVD premiere in October 2013[3], however, even the Italian version was quite rare, most commonly seen in a bootlegged form of an inferior and damaged print of the film. The original Japanese version, with Japanese-language dialogue and titles is commercially available for purchase on Blu Ray as of 2023.[4]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kinema Junposha K.K. via Eiga.com, http://eiga.com/movie/70270/
- ↑ Edizioni MCMLXVI, Film poster
- ↑ CG Entertainment SRL, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac2XTpMg5hE
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/House-of-Terrors-Blu-ray/dp/B0BP8GWW8M?tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER, Blu Ray Listing on Amazon