Call from Darkness (1981)
Keiko Inagawa pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura. A mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tatsuo’s three brothers, one after the other, is yet to be resolved and now Tatsuo, seized with the idea that he too may disappear, has had a nervous breakdown. Aizawa suggests that Tatsuo recount his dreams as a means of solving the mystery, since human beings have an instinct that foretells the near future in the form of a dream. Keiko and Tatsuo eventually discover that the three disappearances have a strange connection…
Director: Yoshitarō Nomura
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Asami Kobayashi as Keiko Inagawa |
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Kaoru Kobayashi as Tatsuo Tamura |
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Etsushi Takahashi as Yoshio Aizawa |
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Masakane Yonekura as Toyokichi Kuze |
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Junko Miyashita as Mitsu Harada |
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Mitsuko Yorichika as Satsuki Akashi |
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Atom Shimojo as Kuninao Fujimura |
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Yutaka Nakajima as Hiroko Harada |
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Tomoe Hiiro as Aizawa's wife |
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Yasukiyo Umeno as |
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Eri Kanuma as Rie Harada |
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Akiko Hoshino as |
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Tetsuro Tamba as Sugibayashi |
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Yoshio Ōmori as Toba |
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Kibaji Tankobo as Hospital patient |
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Nobushi Takeuchi as Shohei Harada |
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Kamon Kawamura as |
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Yoshihisa Hotta as |
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Yuzo Hayata as |
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Masayoshi Satoi as |
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Jun Kashima as Doctor |
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Kanjiro Osugi as |
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Taku Kido as |
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Sōnosuke Oda as |
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Kenji Aino as |
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Akiko Kimura as |
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Ayumi Hanibe as |
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Yoshino Tani as Hospital patient |
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Nahoko Matsutani as |
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Yukari Waka as |
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Yumi Yoshida as |
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Mayumi Nagao as |
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Rin Tsunami as |
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Kiyo Murakami as |
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Sachiko Nakamura as |
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Toshiko Goto as |
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Eiko Sakai as |
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Makoto Fujita as Yamazaki |
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Tanie Kitabayashi as Sukeno |
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Tsunehiko Watase as Kazuo Harada |
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Shinsuke Ashida as |
| Writing | Shūsaku Endō | Novel |
| Writing | Tatsuo Nogami | Writer |
| Directing | Yoshitarō Nomura | Director |
| Production | Yoshitarō Nomura | Executive Producer |
| Production | Yoshiki Nomura | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Takashi Kawamata | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Tadahiko Yamamoto | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Ryuji Matsumoto | Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Mitsuaki Kanno | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Kazuo Ôta | Editor |
| Art | Kyôhei Morita | Art Direction |