If you loved Irezumi, try Death at an Old Mansion

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Irezumi

1982 · dir. Yoichi Takabayashi

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Both films are directed by Yoichi Takabayashi, and they both carry the slow burn mood tag, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Irezumi, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Death at an Old Mansion is

Snow muffles the manor’s rooftops at dawn. Two bodies lie beneath satin, no prints in the courtyard. A civilian sleuth counts wine glasses, catches a thread between floorboards. This locked-room whodunit hums with 1970s oriental dread.

If you loved Irezumi, try Death at an Old Mansion

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Death at an Old Mansion

What they share

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If you loved Irezumi, try Death at an Old Mansion

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