Kyujukyu hon me no kimusume
The Blood Sword of the 99th Virgin
- Release Date
- September, 12th, 1959
- Running Time
- 83 min
- Genre
- Feature
- Color
- Monochrome
- Screening Format
- -
- Screen Size
- Cinema Scope (1:2.35)
[ Directed by ]
[ Cast ]
[ Staff ]
- OKOUCHU Tsunehira ── Original Story
- TAKAKU Susumu ── Screenplay
- FUJISHIMA Jiro ── Screenplay
[ Production Company ]
SHINTOHO
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
SHINTOHO
[ Story ]
In the northern province, two waitresses Mieko and Hanako from Tokyo, are missing somewhere near the River Kitakami. At night, the villagers of Shirayama gather round a blazing fire, and utter incantations while an old headman tempers a sword. The missing Mieko and Hanako have been killed and hang head downwards from the bough of a tree, their blood dripping into large vessel. The police find ninety-eight swords in a secret underground room and the skeletons of eighteen girls near the top of a mountain. The headman of the village tells the people that their ancestors swore to their tutelary god to present offerings of ninety-nine swords tempered with the blood of virgins and the ninety-ninth sword is still untampered. As the law advances in force the villagers kidnap Kanako, daughter of the chief of police, to temper the ninety-ninth sword. Kanako is strung head downwards from a tree…
【Quoted from Unijapan Film Quarterly 1960.3.1】
[ Contact (International) ]
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