Onna Kyuketsuki

AKA's:

Lady Vampire, The / Vampire Man / Woman Vampire, The

Release date:	1959 Japan
Running time:	78' (cover 78') - Source: DVD (RC 1/NTSC) b/w
Rating:	US: NR
Main Crew:	Director: Nobuo Nakagawa (Jigoku 1960; Black Cat Mansion 1958; Vampire Moth 1956) Producer: Shintoho Company Score: Hisashi Inoue Writer: Shin Nakazawa / Katsuyoshi Nakatsu (based on Sotoo Tachibana's novel             "Chitei-no Biniko") Director of photography: Yoshimi Hirano
Cast:	Use the dropdown menu to see the full cast Shigeru Amachi / Nobutaka Takenaka, alias Shiro Sofue, the Vampire Keinosuke Wada / Tamio Oki Junko Ikeuchi / Itsuko Matsumura Youko Mihara / Miwako Matsumura/Princess Katsu Torahiko Nakamura / Shigekatsu Matsumura Hiroshi Sugi / Wada, the Butler Den Kunikata / Hoshino Tsutomu Wakui / The Pigmy Masao Takematsu / Dr. Sakakibayashi Hiroshi Ayukawa / Tanigawa Kyoko Yashiro / Tomoko Youko Mifune Midori Chikuma / Tokiko Yuko Yorozuyo Keiko Hamano Fujie Satsuki / Old Woman Baku Mizuhara / Fujii Hiroshi Izumida / Aoyama Yuzou Harumi / Sea Goblin Eiichi Shinobu Tatsuhiro Oka Youji Naruto / Hayashida Hiroaki Kurahashi / Namiki Shougo Sakane Shouzaburo Date Ken Kawahara Joutarou Yugi Tooru Chiba Ikki Nishi Younosuke Akiyama Youzou Takamura Takamitsu Watanabe Shuuji Kawabe Ayako Ueno Ruriko Kobayashi Akiko Ono
Summary:	Miwako (Youko Mihara), the wife of an atomic scientist, who was missing for 20 years, returns with the same beauty she had when she went missing. Around the same time a mysterious man named Nobutaka (Shigeru Amachi) appears. Nobutaka kidnaps Miwako, whom he believes to be the second incarnation of his former soulmate, and carries her into his subterrianian laboratory where he locks her in a cell. She refuses his advances so he turns her into a wax doll. But her daughter (Junko Ikeuchi) and her boyfriend come to rescue her.
Note:	- This was the first Japanese horror movie to feature a vampire as the protagonist, although this vampire is very different from the Western type (a strictly local variety which was even allergic to moonbeams).
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