Tetsu no tsume 鉄の爪 (Claws of Steel) | |
Director: | Nobuo Adachi |
Producer: | Daiei Motion Picture Company |
Starring: | Joji Oka Sumiko Odaka Ryosuke Kagawa[1] |
Music: | Yoshinobu Shiraki |
Distributor: | Daiei Motion Picture Company |
Runtime: | 82 minutes |
Country: | Japan |
Language: | Japanese |
(Claws of Steel) is a 1951 black-and-white Japanese horror film (J-Horror) directed by Nobuo Adachi for Daiei Films. It was shot in Black and White, Academy ratio full-screen, and was never dubbed in English.[2] The film was never shown in the United States, and was only available on laserdisc in Japan.
A meek church worker who was once bitten by an ape on a jungle island in World War II begins to transform into a beast-man whenever he drinks alcohol. He develops a split personality like Jekyll & Hyde, one half adoring a virginal church organist, the other lusting after an immoral showgirl. A friend puts him into his nightclub act, showcasing his weird ability to transform from man to beast so effectively. At the climax, the man reverts entirely to bestial and wrecks a nightclub, taking a pretty showgirl hostage.