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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. It stars Ko Nishimura, Yuko Kusonoki, Kazuo Kitamura and Shinjiro Ehara and was directed by Hajime Sato. The plot concerns a woman, Yoshie Munakata (Kusonoki) who learns upon 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 Kusonoki, Kazuo Kitamura and Shinjiro Ehara and was directed by Hajime Sato<ref name="R1" />. The plot concerns a woman, Yoshie Munakata (Kusonoki) who learns upon 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, 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. | In 1966<ref>''Edizioni MCMLXVI'', Filmar poster</ref>, 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 | 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<ref>CG Entertainment SRL, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac2XTpMg5hE</ref>, 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 not known to have been released on any home video format. It is also not known to have ever aired on television, and is therefore considered lost. | ||
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Revision as of 14:09, 7 September 2015
Japanese advertising poster
Status: Lost
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 Kusonoki, Kazuo Kitamura and Shinjiro Ehara and was directed by Hajime Sato[1]. The plot concerns a woman, Yoshie Munakata (Kusonoki) who learns upon 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 not known to have been released on any home video format. It is also not known to have ever aired on television, and is therefore considered lost.
Italian advertising poster
Status: Found
Date found: Oct 2013
Found by: Unknown
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kinema Junposha K.K. via Eiga.com, http://eiga.com/movie/70270/
- ↑ Edizioni MCMLXVI, Filmar poster
- ↑ CG Entertainment SRL, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac2XTpMg5hE