◉ Movie Title: Village of Eight Graves Release Date: 1977 (Showa 52) Publisher: Shochiku Co., Ltd. Business Division Format: A4 variant (portrait), 36 pages total ◉ Staff & Main Cast Original: Seishi Yokomizo (Kadokawa Bunko edition) Director: Yoshitaro Nomura Screenplay: Shinobu Hashimoto Music: Yasushi Akutagawa Cinematography: Takashi Kawamata ◉ Main Cast: Tatsuya Terada: Kenichi Hagiwara Kosuke Kindaichi: Kiyoshi Atsumi Miyako Mori: Mayumi Ogawa (currently Mayumi Ogawa) Yozo Tajimi / Hisaya: Tsutomu Yamazaki Haruyo Tajimi: Yoko Yamamoto Kotake Tajimi: Etsuko Ichihara Koume Tajimi: Ninako Yamaguchi ◉ Unconventional Double Lead: The Shock of "Tora-san" Playing Kindaichi. Among all the Kosuke Kindaichi actors, Kiyoshi Atsumi's version is the most unique. While Koichi Ichikawa's version with Koji Ishizaka is a "light-footed, intellectual detective," Atsumi's version is "an observer who appears from nowhere and silently watches the history of the village." In contrast to the Kadokawa film *The Inugami Family* of the same period, which emphasized puzzle-like mysteries, Nomura's *Village of Eight Graves*, through Shinobu Hashimoto's screenplay, was boldly transformed into an occult-panic film centered on the "curse of the defeated warriors from 400 years ago." The ferocity of the massacre scene where Tsutomu Yamazaki runs through the snow with a flashlight on his head transformed this work from a mystery into a horror film. The forceful technique of summarizing even the culprit's motive as "grudge" surprised mystery fans, and the catchphrase "It's a curse!" The dark brown nun (Yukiko Nimuta) who appears in the pamphlet shouts this phrase, which swept across Japan in 1977. With a location cost of 200 million yen, and two years of filming, as the map in the pamphlet shows, the filming locations spanned Japan from Iwate to Okinawa. In particular, the filming at the sea of clouds at the Akechi Pass on the border of Okayama and Tottori prefectures, and the giant limestone caves such as Akiyoshido, provided overwhelming visual effects in an era without CG. This is the "pinnacle of realism," which is the opposite of Ichikawa's "stylized sets." While at the peak of the Yokomizo boom, the fact that the tone of the work is imbued with the depth of a social drama in the style of "Shochiku - The Human Condition" makes this work a unique existence. ◉ The unusual "Four Major Posters" feature #Saiga Yonekura, winner of the Bologna Prize in Italy, popular art director #Katsumi Asaba, illustrator #Harumi Yamaguchi, and #Shojiro Hara. The documentary value of these collaborative posters by these luxurious creators is extremely high, and in particular, Saiga Yonekura's alluring illustration poster itself is a collector's item that is still traded at high prices.