The Lady Vampire

The Lady Vampire

1959 · 78 min · ★ 5.4 · Horror

Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who disappeared twenty years ago when she was just a baby. No one knows the first thing about the artist who painted it, but he goes by the name Shiro Sofue, and he's always wearing shades in the daytime...

Directed by Nobuo Nakagawa · Written by Katsuyoshi Nakatsu

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