The Village of Eight Graves

This film (drama)Also known as八つ墓村，is aJapanProducerwomen sex，At1977Released in year 。The dialogue language isJapanese，Current Douban rating6.6(For reference only)。

In the 9th year of Eiroku (1566), during the Japanese Warring States period, eight fallen samurai escape to a mountain village, where they lay down their arms and start living as ordinary farmers. Soon, the Mori clan investigates the hidden samurai, and the villager Zōzaemon (played by Isao Hashimoto) devises a plan to kill them. Before dying, the samurai lay a curse, claiming that those who betray them will die an unnatural death. After that, the curse comes true, with eight people, including Zōzaemon, dying, and the village is renamed to The Village of Eight Graves. In 1949, Terada Tatsuya (played by Kenichi Hagiwara), a plane navigator in Tokyo, suddenly learns that he is the child of the prestigious Tajimi family in The Village of Eight Graves, Okayama. The current head of the family, Tajimi Hisaya (played by Noboru Yamazaki), is gravely ill, and Tatsuya is summoned back as the heir. However, this trip is fraught with danger; upon meeting his grandfather Ikawa Umatsu (played by Yoshiharu Kato), he is poisoned. Tatsuya learns about the origins of The Village of Eight Graves from the villagers, discovering that Zōzaemon is an ancestor of the Tajimi family. Unnatural deaths begin to occur one after another; could it be the samurai’s 400-year-old curse? Or is there another conspiracy at play? This film is adapted from the novel of the same name by mystery writer Seishi Yokomizo.