
Family Plot(1976)
Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.


Akihiro Miwa
Black Lizard (Mrs. Midorikawa)

Isao Kimura
Kogoro Akechi / Matsukichi

Jun Usami
Shobei Iwase

Toshiko Kobayashi
Hina
Mitsuko Takara
Show dancer
Tetsuji Hattori
Toyama

Kyōichi Satō
Ôkawa
Ryuji Funahashi
Kozu

Sōnosuke Oda
Harada

Tadayuki Okamoto
Black Lizard is a crime, comedy, fantasy, mystery, thriller film released in 1968 exploring themes of transvestism, kidnapping, detective, jewel thief, lgbt. Directed by Kinji Fukasaku, it stars Akihiro Miwa, Isao Kimura, Jun Usami. A detective tries to outwit an art loving thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get to an exquisite diamond.
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