The Inugami Family (Japanese: 犬神家の一族, Hepburn: Inugami-ke no Ichizoku) is a 1976 Japanese mystery film directed by Kon Ichikawa. It is based on the novel The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo. The film is the first in Kon Ichikawa's and Kōji Ishizaka's Kindaichi Series. The soundtrack is composed by Yuji Ohno. Ichikawa remade the film in 2006 as The Inugamis.
Murders start taking place within the very rich Inugami family in connection to a will left by Sahei Inugami, the family patriarch to Tamayo, an outsider.
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Cast
Kōji Ishizaka as Kosuke Kindaichi
Yoko Shimada as Tamayo Nonomiya
Teruhiko Aoi as Sukekiyo Inugami / Shizuma Aonuma
Mieko Takamine as Matsuko Inugami
Mitsuko Kusabue as Umeko Inugami
Ryoko Sakaguchi as Haru
Takeo Chii as Suketake Inugami
Akiji Kobayashi as Kôkichi Inugami
Kyōko Kishida as The Koto Player
Hideji Ōtaki as Oyama
Eitaro Ozawa as Kyozo Furudate
Takeshi Katō as Detective Tachibana
Rentarō Mikuni as Sahei Inugami
Awards and nominations
1st Hochi Film Award
Won: Best Film
19th Blue Ribbon Awards
Won Best Supporting Actress Mieko Takamine