Kind-hearted girl next door beauty (Junko Ikeuchi) turns the heads of all the handsome boys, so three other models decide to push her off the nearest cliff. But her aunt is a witch who grants her monstrous powers to transform into a beast and get her revenge.
Practical Effects
Charming low-budget beast transformation that punches above its weight.
Costume
Swinging sixties model looks meet witchy gothic glamour.
Acting
Junko Ikeuchi sells both ingenue sweetness and monstrous fury.
Director
Kyōtarō Namiki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Nikkatsu's 1960s 'borderless' horror cycle blending Western gothic with Japanese urban anxieties about modernizing femininity.
Director Kyōtarō Namiki was a specialist in 'underworld' films; this was his rare supernatural detour before returning to yakuza territory.
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