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The Hunter's Diary 1964 Directed by Kō Nakahira 猟人日記

Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the evenings. He even rents a secret apartment where he keeps record of his girl hunts in his diary, the ‘Hunter’s Diary’. One day, he finds an article in the newspaper – a murder of a young woman in his diary. A few days later, another woman from his diary is murdered. He soon finds himself in a labyrinth of fear, as women named in his diary are killed one after another...

Country Japan
Production Country Japan
Language Japanese
Spoken Language Japanese
Gnere Thriller
Production Company Nikkatsu Corporation
Release Date 19 April 1964
123 mins
Cast
Noboru Nakaya
Noboru Nakaya Ichiro Honda
Masako Togawa
Masako Togawa Taneko Honda
Kazuo Kitamura
Kazuo Kitamura Kentaro Hatanaka
Yukiyo Toake
Yukiyo Toake Mutsuko Fuji
Teruko Kishi
Teruko Kishi Housekeeper
Yōko Yamamoto
Yōko Yamamoto Keiko Obana
Kazuko Inano
Kazuko Inano Fusako Aikawa
Yōko Kozono
Yōko Kozono Tsuneko Obana
Fujiko Takasuga
Fujiko Takasuga Mitsuko Kosugi
Toshie Takada
Toshie Takada Mitsuko Ono
Goichi Yamada
Goichi Yamada Seiji Tanikawa
Sumiko Minami
Sumiko Minami Married woman​
Ikunosuke Koizumi
Ikunosuke Koizumi Lawyer Wada
Kōtarō Sugie
Kōtarō Sugie
Mizuho Suzuki
Mizuho Suzuki
Michio Hino
Michio Hino Yuzo Osawa
Tatsuo Matsushita
Tatsuo Matsushita
Eiken Shoji
Eiken Shoji
Asao Koike
Asao Koike Narrator (voice)
Kasumi Motegi
Kasumi Motegi
Akira Nakao
Akira Nakao
Jun Tenbō
Jun Tenbō
Crew
Director
Kō Nakahira
Kō Nakahira
Writer
Tatsuo Asano
Tatsuo Asano
Cinematography
Yoshihiro Yamazaki
Yoshihiro Yamazaki
Composer
Toshirō Mayuzumi
Toshirō Mayuzumi
Editor
Masanori Tsujii
Masanori Tsujii
Original Writer
Masako Togawa
Masako Togawa
Art Direction
Yasuhiro Otsuru
Yasuhiro Otsuru
Lighting
Toshio Mori
Toshio Mori
Assistant Director
Kimiyoshi Soga
Kimiyoshi Soga