The Spider Tattoo

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Lily R Nov 2 Great Japanese movie! See more Madoka A Nov 2 Fantastic movie. Love old Japanese films like this See more Laura S Nov 2 Great movie. About a spider tattoo that haunt's people. Terrified me. See more Abro A Nov 2 Fantastic movie. Makes you feel like that spider tattoo is become apart of you as well. I really enjoyed this! See more william d @acsdoug 08/10/2022 I liked the movie's concept but disliked the execution. There are some weak plot points, the fight scenes appear phony and staged, and there is a lot of lame dialog. On the plus side, Ayako Wakao gives an impressive performance. See more 05/26/2021 Based on Junichiro Tanizaki's story Shisei (The Tattooist), Yasuzô Masumura's (Black Test Car) tells the story of Otsuya and Shinsuke. She's the daughter of a rich merchant who is tempted by her father's employee to elope before they're caught by an inn keeper. Now sold into prostitution, she's given a tattoo by Seikichi, a master artist, of a human-faced spider. Her pale skin has created the perfect canvas for him, but now she's been marked as the property of another man. As she and Shinsuke seek to escape their lives, all manner of horror follows, with the face of the spider changing — and Otsuya herself — with each act and each man who comes her way must pay. Masumura and his muse Ayako Wakao, who plays Otsuya, made several films together, yet this film is the first of theirs I've seen. It's a woman getting revenge feature. Yet while the film makes you wonder at first if it's the tattoo or the woman doing all of the murder, by the end, the answer becomes clear. See more Read all reviews

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