The Living Skeleton
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In this atmospheric tale of revenge from beyond the watery grave, a pirate-ransacked freighter’s violent past comes back to haunt a young woman living in a seaside town. Mixing elements of kaidan (ghost stories), doppelgänger thrillers, and mad-scientist movies, Hiroshi Matsuno’s The Living Skeleton is a wild and eerie work, with beautiful widescreen, black-and-white cinematography.
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Cast
- Kikko Matsuoka
- Saeko/Yoriko
- Yasunori Irikawa
- Mochizuki
- Masumi Okada
- Father
- Nobuo Kaneko
- Suetsugu
- Kô Nishimura
- Nishizato
Credits
- Director
- Hiroshi Matsuno
- Produced by
- Akira Inomata
- Screenplay
- Kikuma Shimoiizaka
- Screenplay
- Kyuzo Kobayashi
- Cinematography
- Masayuki Kato
- Editor
- Kazuo Ota
- Production design
- Kyohei Morita
- Music
- Noboru Nishiyama
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