Village of Eight Graves (film, 1977)

Tatsuya Terada, an airline employee, once receives a newspaper in which his name is indicated on the people search page. In the announcement of this newspaper, he was invited to drive up to the Suva law office in Osaka . At the lawyer's office, he meets with his maternal grandfather Usimatsu Igawa, who would like to make sure Tatsuya has a burn mark on his back (this mark confirms his true origin and belonging to the Tajimi family, the alleged father). At the time of the meeting, the grandfather of Usimatsu suddenly dies. Tatsuya takes a week off to go to the grandfather's funeral in the village where he was once born.

Tatsuy Terada had a reason to visit his native places, at the same time to learn more about the secret of his birth, about his mother and father, about whom he knows almost nothing. The village to which he comes has long been called the "village of eight graves." This name comes from ancient times. Once in 1566 (the 9th year of the Eiroku era ), for the sake of profit, they killed eight runaway ronins , despite the fact that they taught the locals a lot of useful things. And now it is generally accepted that these dead take revenge on the living.

Tatsuyu on arrival meets Miyako Mori, his distant relative. She brings him to the village, where he represents the whole family and the dying half-brother of Hisai. At this meeting, Hisaya dies (apparently by all indications not by his death). The unrest begins in the village, because local residents believe in the wrath of the gods of the “eight graves”, and they consider the newcomer Tatsuya Terada to be the culprit of the dead, foreshadowing even death, up to eight people. And these deaths follow one after another ...

As it turned out, the alleged father of Tatsuya went crazy and, having killed 32 villagers a few years ago, he hid after that in the mountain caves, where he disappeared. Together with Tatsuya, a private investigator, Kose Kindaiti, appears in the village, who begins to unravel the mystery of all the killings.

• Kenichi Hagiwara - Tatsuya Therada
• Mayumi Ogawa - Miyako Mori
• Tsutomu Yamazaki - Youjo Tajimi / Hisaya Tajimi
• Yoko Shimada - wife of Yojo Tajimi (uncredited)
• Yoko Yamamoto - Haruyo Tajimi
• Etsuko Ishihara - Kotake Tajimi
• Ninako Yamaguchi - Koume Tajimi
• Ryoko Nakano - Tsuruko Igawa
• Yoshi Kato - Usimatsu Igawa
• Hisashi Igawa - Kanji Igawa
• Masami Shimojo - Kudo Koto
• Takuya Fujioka - Kuno Ishi
• Jun Hamamura - Sokichi Mori
• Torahiko Hamada - Tahichiro Yoshioka
• Junko Natsu - Kazue
• Hideji Ootaki - Suva Attorney
• Tokue Hanazawa - Inspector Isokawa
• Isao Natsuyagi - Yoshitaka Amako
• Kunie Tanaka - Otimus
• Yoshio Inaba - Otimus
• Kiyoshi Atsumi - Cosplay Kindaichi

•   - The national premiere of the film took place on October 29, 1977 ^[1] .
•   - US premiere on March 17, 1978 ^[1] .

Japanese Film Academy Award

• 2nd Award Ceremony (1978) ^[2]

Won:

• The 1977 Best Soundtrack Award - Yasushi Akutagawa (ex aequo: Hakkodasan Mountains / Hakkodasan).

Nominations in categories:

• for the best lead male role in 1977 - Kiyoshi Atsumi (ex aequo: "It 's hard for a man to live. Movie 19: Torajiro and the master " and "It 's hard for a man to live. Movie 20: Hold on, Torajiro ! .
• for the best script of 1977 - Shinobu Hashimoto (ex aequo: "Hakkodas Mountains" / Hakkodasan).

• 1951 - “ The Village of Eight Graves ” / Jap. 八 つ 墓 村 : Yatsuhaka-mura (directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda ). Unlike the film Yoshitaro Nomura, where the plot was postponed in the 1970s, in this film adaptation, which was released shortly after the publication of the novel by Sashi Yokomizo, the action takes place as in the literary original source - in the 1920s. And if Nomura is the protagonist of the film, Tatsuya, then in the 1951 film, the protagonist, as in the novel, is detective Kosuke Kindaiti (in the film of Nomura, he seems to be in the background). In the role of Kosuke Kindaichi - Tiezo Kataoka .
• 1996 - “ The Village of Eight Graves ” / Jap. 八 つ 墓 村 : Yatsuhaka-mura (directed by Kon Ichikawa ). In the role of Kosuke Kindaichi - Etsushi Toyokawa .
• There are also two television series (1978 - mini-series, and 1991).

• The massacre in Tsuyama

• The Village of Eight Graves on the Internet Movie Database  
• Vasiliev, Alexey . Exhibition of nonsense. Eternal echo of each other essay on the website of the magazine "Session" (05/15/2014) .