The Demon of Mount Oe
1960 Japanese film
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The Demon of Mount Oe (Japanese: 大江山酒天童子, Hepburn: Ōeyama Shuten Dōji; lit. 'Shuten Doji of Mount Oe') is a 1960 Japanese horror film directed by Tokuzō Tanaka and produced by Daiei Film.[1][2] The film is about Samurai warriors joining forces to defeat a shape-changing supernatural creature.[3]
Kanji大江山酒天童子
Revised HepburnŌeyama Shuten Dōji
Revised HepburnŌeyama Shuten Dōji
Directed byTokuzō Tanaka
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| Kanji | 大江山酒天童子 | ||||
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| Directed by | Tokuzō Tanaka | ||||
| Screenplay by | Fuji Yahiro | ||||
| Based on | Ōeyama Shuten Dōji by Matsutarō Kawaguchi | ||||
| Produced by | Masaichi Nagata Akinari Suzuki | ||||
| Starring | Kazuo Hasegawa Ichikawa Raizō VIII Shintaro Katsu | ||||
| Cinematography | Hiroshi Imai | ||||
| Edited by | Kanji Suganuma | ||||
| Music by | Ichirō Saitō | ||||
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| Distributed by | Daiei | ||||
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Running time | 114 minutes | ||||
| Country | Japan | ||||
| Language | Japanese | ||||
Cast
- Kazuo Hasegawa as Bizennosuke Tachibana no Tomotada
- Kojiro Hongo as Sakata no Kintoki
- Ichikawa Raizō VIII as Minamoto-no-Yorimitsu
- Shintaro Katsu as Watanabe no Tsuna
- Jun Tazaki as Hakamadare no Yasusuke
- Kichijiro Ueda as Arakuma no Taro
- Eitaro Ozawa as Fujiwara no Michinaga
- Sachiko Hidari as Ibaragi Doji
- Fujiko Yamamoto as Nagisa no Mae
- Tamao Nakamura as Kotsuma
- Jun Negami as Hirai no Yasumasa
- Nakamura Ganjirō II as Yamato no Kami
- Saburo Date as Omi no Kuro
- Naritoshi Hayashi as Urabe no Suetake
- Atsuko Kindaichi as Princess Katsura
- Ichiro Izawa as Umanosuke
- Ryuzo Shimada as Usui no Sadamitsu
- Sonosuke Sawamura as Tsuchigumo Jinnai
- Shintaro Nanjo as Harima no Kami
Release
The Demon of Mount Oe was released in Japan on April 27, 1960.[3] The film was released on VHS in Japan by Daiei on December 12, 1997[4] and was released on DVD by Kadokawa Shoten on January 24, 2014.[5] Radiance Films released a 4K restoration on Blu-ray as part of the second volume of their Daiei Gothic collection.[6]
