The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty

The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty (1957)

憲兵とバラバラ死美人

The year is 1937, and it has been six months since the Sendai Infantry left for Manchuria. The rotted corpse of a young woman is found at the bottom of a well, but her face and limbs are gone. The military police begin an investigation and search fervently for the person responsible, but they can't even determine the victim's identity, much less find any clues. However, the incident is made public when newspapers give wide coverage to the story, so Staff Sergeant Kosaka is dispatched from Tokyo to solve the case. Eventually, General Tsunekichi is taken into custody by local infantrymen because of the testimony of another unit, but the spirit of the dead woman appears before Staff Sergeant Kosaka, who continues to investigate on his own...

Date of release
1957-08-06
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 13m
Genres
Horror, Mystery
Director
Kyōtarō Namiki

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Interesting facts

Kenpei to Barabara Shibijin is a 1957 black-and-white Japanese thriller film directed by Kyotaro Namiki and written by Akira Sugimoto, based on the book Notautsu Kanpei by Japanese military officer Keisuke Kosaka.

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