Shura (film)

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Shura (Japanese: 修羅, Hepburn: Shūra), known in English as Demons or Pandemonium is a 1971 folk horror period piece by Japanese director Toshio Matsumoto. Starring Katsuo Nakamura and Yasuko Sanjo, the film follows a disgraced samurai married to a geisha, who embarks on a violent quest of revenge upon discovering a plot by his wife and her secret lover to rob him. [1]

Shura
Japanese name
Kanji修羅
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnShūra
Directed byToshio Matsumoto
Written by
  • Nanboku Tsuruya
  • Shuji Ishizawa
  • Toshio Matsumoto
Starring
CinematographyTatsuo Suzuki
Edited byToshie Iwasa
Music byBunichi Nishimatsu
Production
company
Distributed byToho
LanguageJapanese

References

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  1. ^ "Demons (1971)".

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