Yoichi Takabayashi — Playwright (2)
Death at an Old Mansion (1975) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
本陣殺人事件
director: Yoichi Takabayashi actor: Akira Nakao / Takahiro Tamura
other title: 本陣殺人事件
A woman and her bridegroom are found murdered in their bed the day after their wedding. It had snowed overnight and the killer left no tracks. It is up to an amateur detective to figure out what happened. Carefully and systematically, he pieces together the clues in this locked room mystery.
The Temple of the Golden Pavillion (1976) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB Douban IMDb
金閣寺
director: Yoichi Takabayashi actor: Toshio Shiba / Katsuhiko Yokomitsu
other title: 金閣寺 / Kinkakuji
The story takes place during the end of the Pacific War and the aftermath period and it focuses on Mizoguchi, who is the son of a Buddhist Priest. When his father dies, he’s sent to the Temple of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto. Mizoguchi is physically unattractive and becomes, in some way, jealous of the beautiful Temple that he loves so much.