Village of the Eight Tombs

Deep mountain village. Cicada rasp. A single gold coin. A distant relative arrives to claim his inheritance, stirring up generations of resentment and dread. Machetes glint in the dark. Nomura’s folk-horror mystery plays like a brutal inversion of Kurosawa.

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Yoshitarō Nomura directed Village of the Eight Tombs in 1977. See Yoshitarō Nomura's full filmography, where to start with Yoshitarō Nomura, or where to go after you've seen everything by Yoshitarō Nomura.

Village of the Eight Tombs was released in 1977 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 151 minutes.