Search All

Search by Title

Release year:
Production year:

Advance Search

Search by Cast/Staff

Advance Search

Search by Company/Association

Advance Search

Categories

Genres

Genres: Specify

1963

Sasayaku shibijin

Whispering Dead Beauty

囁く死美人

Release Date
June, 23rd, 1963
Running Time
83 min
Genre
Feature
Color
Monochrome
Screening Format
-,D2
Screen Size
Cinema Scope (1:2.35)

[ Directed by ]

[ Cast ]

[ Staff ]

[ Production Company ]

DAIEI

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

DAIEI

[ Story ]

Fujiko Niwa, a nurse, is in love with Dr. Suga, but fear clutches her heart when she overhears that Reiko, the Director's daughter, is coming to the hospital to see the man she hopes to marry.
When Dr. Kawada asks the young doctor if he will marry Reiko, his only child, and he is told that the hospital will be his together with a leisurely honeymoon in Europe, he finds the offer irresistible.
But when Fujiko tells him that she is with his child, Suga is shocked, for a baby would ruin all his chances and he tells her to get rid of it. Resolved to tell Dr. Kawada everything, she begins to climb the back stairs, Suga overtakes her and in the tussle, Fujiko slips and falls, loses her child and becomes permanently lame.
After giving Fujiko a sedative, Suga carries her down the emergency stairs and dumps her into an unused pool at the back of the hospital.
The police presume she committed suicide. Dr. Suga goes on his honeymoon, but back at the hospital, he is tortured by conscience and sees Fujiko everywhere.
He becomes a close-lipped, suspicious man, doubting his own wife, and his unfounded suspicions make him push Reiko down the very steps where Fujiko had fallen. During the operation on his wife, he looks up suddenly and meets Fujiko's eyes gazing at him steadily above her mask! It is no hallucination! She is alive! He had killed her! Why? Why is she alive?

【Quoted from Unijapan Film Quarterly 1963 6.4】

[ Contact (International) ]

KADOKAWA CORPORATION
International Sales, Literature and Movie Group

2-13-3 Fujimi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8177
Rep: NATSUNO Takeshi (President)
Attn: MORI Chiyo
tel: +81 50 1746 1220
E-mail: mori-c@kadokawa.jp
http://www.kadokawa.co.jp

Relative Titles

Karafuto senkyuhyakuyonjugo nen natsu hyosetsu no mon

Karafuto senkyuhyakuyonjugo nen natsu hyosetsu no mon (1974)

Director
MURAYAMA Mitsuo
Cast
NIKI Terumi, TORII Keiko, OKADA Kawai

This social drama was produced in 1974, but the content was considered inflammatory by the then Soviet government and the political pressure they applied ensured it was never released. However, in 2004, some surviving film footage was discovered and ...

Release Date
Jul, 17th, 2010
Eternal New Mornings

Eternal New Mornings (2023)

Director
YAMAMOTO Toru
Cast
SAKURABA Nanami, SUGIMOTO Tetta, TEZUKA Satomi

A "story about facing life" set in Miyagi prefecture, 10 years after the Great East Japan Earthquake. A former musician who lost her boyfriend in an accident. A pro boxer who keeps fighting even after the age of 30 and his wife. A woman fightin...

Release Date
Mar, 10th, 2023
Downfall

Downfall (2023)

Director
TAKENAKA Naoto
Cast
SAITOH Takumi, Shuri, MEGUMI

A manga artist Kaoru Fukazawa, who has finished his eight-year series, is wasting his days feeling empty and depressed. He finds harsh criticisms from readers on social media, has a hard time agreeing with his sales-oriented editor, and gets unjust a...

Release Date
Mar, 17th, 2023
Okiku and the World

Okiku and the World (2023)

Director
SAKAMOTO Junji
Cast
KUROKI Haru, Kanichiro, IKEMATSU Sosuke

In the mid-19th century, Okiku, a young woman, lives in a tenement row house among ordinary people in the sprawling city of Edo – known as Tokyo today. Okiku lives with her father, Genbei, a former samurai, now reduced to a penniless ronin, whom she ...

Release Date
Apr, 28th, 2023