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Ten Dark Women

Ten Dark Women
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Original Japanese poster.
Directed by Kon Ichikawa
Produced by Hiroaki Fujii
Masaichi Nagata
Written by Natto Wada
Music by Yasushi Akutagawa
Cinematography Setsao Kobayashi
Edited by Tatsuji Nakashizu
Distributed by Daiei Film
Release date
  • 3 May 1961 (1961-05-03)
Running time
105 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese


Ten Dark Women kuroi junin no onna (黒い十人の女?) (literally "ten black women") is a 1961 Japanese film directed by Kon Ichikawa.

A married television executive has many mistresses. Nine of the mistresses and his wife band together and plan to kill him. His wife tells him they are planning to kill him and they fake his death at a meeting of all ten women using a pistol loaded with blanks and a tomato.

The other women tell her that they were not really serious about killing him and run away. One of the women, Miwako, commits suicide, and her ghost comes back to view the proceedings. Then they find out that he is not really dead, and they decide to kill him again.

His wife divorces him and one of the other women takes him on.

Donald Richie describes it as "an extraordinarily black comedy ... the hilarious hell of a man whose wife, mistresses and girlfriends conspire to murder him".


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