The Monsters and Mayhem of Shochiku in the ’60s
November 20, 2012
In this atmospheric tale of revenge from beyond the watery grave, a pirate-ransacked freighter’s violent past comes back to haunt a young woman living in a seaside town. Mixing elements of kaidan (ghost stories), doppelgänger thrillers, and mad- scientist movies, Hiroshi Matsuno’s The Living Skeleton is a wild and eerie work, with beautiful widescreen, black-and-white cinematography.
| Saeko/Yoriko | Kikko Matsuoka |
| Mochizuki | Yasunori Irikawa |
| Father | Masumi Okada |
| Suetsugu | Nobuo Kaneko |
| Nishizato | Kô Nishimura |
| Director | Hiroshi Matsuno |
| Produced by | Akira Inomata |
| Screenplay | Kikuma Shimoiizaka and Kyuzo Kobayashi |
| Cinematography | Masayuki Kato |
| Editor | Kazuo Ota |
| Production design | Kyohei Morita |
| Music | Noboru Nishiyama |
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