The Lady Vampire (1959)
Original title: 女吸血鬼
The Lady Vampire is a 1959 Japanese-language horror movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa, with a running time of 1h 18m. It stars Shigeru Amachi, Keinosuke Wada and Junko Ikeuchi.
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...
Cast
- Shigeru Amachi as Nobutaka Takenaka
- Keinosuke Wada as Tamio Oki
- Junko Ikeuchi as Itsuko Matsumura
- Yōko Mihara as Miwako Matsumura
- Akira Nakamura as Shigekatsu Matsumura
- Kan Sugi as Wada, the butler
- Den Kunikata as Hoshino
- Tsutomu Wakui as Pygmy
- Masao Takamatsu as Dr. Sakakibara
- Hiroshi Ayukawa as Tanigawa
- Kyôko Yashiro as Tomoko
- Yōko Mifune