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1961 Japanese film

Ten Dark Women
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Kon Ichikawa
Written by	Natto Wada
Produced by	Hiroaki Fujii Masaichi Nagata
Cinematography	Setsao Kobayashi
Edited by	Tatsuji Nakashizu
Music by	Yasushi Akutagawa
Distributed by	Daiei Film
Release date	3 May 1961 (1961-05-03)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Ten Dark Women (Kuroi jûnin no onna (黒い十人の女), literally "ten black women") is a 1961 Japanese film directed by Kon Ichikawa.

Plot

A married television executive has many mistresses. Nine of the mistresses and his wife band together and plan to kill him. His wife tells him they are planning to kill him and they fake his death at a meeting of all ten women using a pistol loaded with blanks and a tomato.

The other women tell her that they were not really serious about killing him and run away. One of the women, Miwako, commits suicide, and her ghost comes back to view the proceedings. Then they find out that he is not really dead, and they decide to kill him again.

His wife divorces him and one of the other women takes him on.

Cast

Staff

Director	Kon Ichikawa
Screenplay	Natto Wada
Special effects	Yonesaburo Tsukiji

Reception

Donald Richie describes it as "an extraordinarily black comedy ... the hilarious hell of a man whose wife, mistresses and girlfriends conspire to murder him".

Cast

Role	Actor
Kaze's wife	Fujiko Yamamoto
Kaze	Eiji Funakoshi
Sayoko Goto	Kyōko Kishida
	Keiko Kishi
	Juzo Itami
	Tamao Nakamura
Miwako	Mariko Miyagi
Themselves	Hajime Hana and the Crazy Cats

References

"Kinema Junpo Eiga Detabesu - Kuroi Junin No Onna". Retrieved 26 February 2012.
^ Richie, Donald (1982). The Japanese Movie (Rev ed.). Tokyo: Kodansha International. p. 164. ISBN 4770097670.
"黒い十人の女". kotobank. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
"黒い十人の女". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
"築地米三郎". www.jmdb.ne.jp. Retrieved 6 August 2021.

External links

Ten Dark Women at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Kon Ichikawa
A Thousand and One Nights with Toho (1947) The Heart (1955) The Burmese Harp (1956) The Hole (1957) Conflagration (1958) Odd Obsession (1959) Fires on the Plain (1959) A Woman's Testament (1960) Her Brother (1960) Ten Dark Women (1961) Being Two Isn't Easy (1962) An Actor's Revenge (1963) Alone Across the Pacific (1963) Tokyo Olympiad (1965) Topo Gigio and the Missile War (1967) To Love Again (1971) The Wanderers (1973) Visions of Eight (1973) The Inugami Family (1976) Queen Bee (1978) Phoenix (1978) The House of Hanging (1979) Ancient City (1980) Lonely Heart (1981) The Makioka Sisters (1983) Ohan (1984) The Burmese Harp (1985) Princess from the Moon (1987) The Return of Monjirō Kogarashi (1993) 47 Ronin (1994) Dora-heita (2000) The Inugamis (2006)

Films directed by Kon Ichikawa

A Thousand and One Nights with Toho (1947)
The Heart (1955)
The Burmese Harp (1956)
The Hole (1957)
Conflagration (1958)
Odd Obsession (1959)
Fires on the Plain (1959)
A Woman's Testament (1960)
Her Brother (1960)
Ten Dark Women (1961)
Being Two Isn't Easy (1962)
An Actor's Revenge (1963)
Alone Across the Pacific (1963)
Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
Topo Gigio and the Missile War (1967)
To Love Again (1971)
The Wanderers (1973)
Visions of Eight (1973)
The Inugami Family (1976)
Queen Bee (1978)
Phoenix (1978)
The House of Hanging (1979)
Ancient City (1980)
Lonely Heart (1981)
The Makioka Sisters (1983)
Ohan (1984)
The Burmese Harp (1985)
Princess from the Moon (1987)
The Return of Monjirō Kogarashi (1993)
47 Ronin (1994)
Dora-heita (2000)
The Inugamis (2006)

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