Living Koheiji (Kaiidan: Ikiteiru Koheiji)

U.S. premiere

1982, 78 min., color, 16mm.  In Japanese with English subtitles.

Directed by Nobuo Nakagawa. Written by Nobuo Nakagawa, based on the story by Senzaburo Suzuki. Cinematography by Ikio Higuchi. With Fumihiko Fujima, Junko Miyashita and Shoji Ishibashi. Print courtesy of The Japan Foundation with permission from Toho. 

Japanese horror film king Nobuo Nakagawa’s last film concentrates on three characters and experiments with visual style. A young man falls in love with a married woman. Her angry husband kills the man but the victim haunts the couple until all three of them go to hell.