The Claws of the Divine Beast

Name: The Claws of the Divine Beast
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Genre: Mystery, TV Movie
Released: 1980-06-20
Duration: 45 min
Rating: 6
Cast: Naoko Ohtani, Hiroshi Sekiguchi, Hiroshi Kondō, Yuki Kimura, Isamu Nagato

1980

45m

Mystery TV Movie

Director: Seijun Suzuki

Writer: Yasuhiro Sakurai

Overview

Based on a mystery by Taiwanese-Japanese author Chin Shun-shin. After two elderly men in Yokohama quarrel over a Tang dynasty artifact, one of the men turns up dead with mysterious claw marks across his face. A detective takes up the case, and uncovers secrets dating back to war crimes committed during Japan’s invasion of China in WWII.