Curse (犬神の悪霊) 47 years old

Curse

In a rural village with a poorly understood but long standing curse from the Dog God, outsiders from a major Tokyo mining corporation scouting for uranium destroy a small shrine and crush a dog under their jeep wheels. After one of the mining company employees marries the daughter of a prominent member of the village, the Dog God’s wrath boils over and people start to die. The village girl and mining company employee start a new life in Tokyo, but the Dog God possesses her and she is deemed mentally ill. The couple returns to the village to perform an exorcism, but it is unsuccessful. As the body count accumulates, the cause of and remedy for the curse becomes more opaque.

Credits

Curse Cast

Name Character
Mizuho Suzuki He was 49, now 97 years old as Gozo Kenmochi
Jun Izumi She was 7, now 39 years old as Reiko Kano
Emiko Yamauchi She was 23, now 71 years old as Kaori Tarumi
Akiko Koyama She was 42, now 89 years old as Sachi Kenmochi
Hideo Murota He was 39, 64 years old when he died as Ryusaku Tarumi
Nenji Kobayashi He was 34, now 81 years old
Kyōko Kishida She was 47, 76 years old when she died as Kimiyo Tarumi
Shin'ya Ohwada He was 29, now 77 years old as Ryuji Kano
Masami Hasegawa He was 33, now 80 years old as Mako Kenmochi
Takeshige Hatanaka as Yasui
Nobuo Kawai He was 45, 74 years old when he died as Kajiyama
Kayoko Shiraishi She was 35, now 83 years old
Noboru Mitani He was 45, now 92 years old
Gôzô Sôma He was 47, 74 years old when he died as Tanabe
Shinya Ono He was 22, now 69 years old as Nishioka

Curse Crew

Name Department
Kanji Amao as Producer. Production
Shunya Ito as Director. He was 40 (now 87) years old Directing
Shunya Ito as Screenplay. He was 40 (now 87) years old Writing
Shunsuke Kikuchi as Original Music Composer. He was 46 (now 93) years old Sound
Hanjirô Nakazawa as Director of Photography. Camera
Curse poster
Curse (47 years)

  • Release day: Saturday, June 18, 1977
  • Runtime: 103 minutes