Title:Yatsuhaka-mura Year:1996 Genre:Mystery Language:Japanese Country:Japan Director:Kon Ichikawa Writer:Kon Ichikawa / Seishi Yokomizo / Ikuko Ôyabu Actors:Etsushi Toyokawa / Yûko Asano / Yu Ji Chin Ye Plot:In a remake of a well-known Japanese mystery, a man in Kobe does not have a family. He receives a visitor who is a researcher one day who has noticed that the man has a well-off family in Okayama. This village is called Yatsuhakamura. This family has been there for four hundred years. The man decides to visit his new-found family only for a series of murders to coincide with his arrival. This family's lawyer hires a private investigator who begins working on the crimes.