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The story of Orochi revolves around the life of the Monzen family. Aoi Monzen, a famous, but aging, movie star and Kazusa and Lisa Monzen her two daughters. Aoi hopes for them both to take over her legacy as a star, but Kazusa does not live up to her expectations. The mother is always pitting the girls against one another competitively. As a result, as the years pass, the love the sisters shared grows to a hidden hatred. When another girl named Orochi saves the girl's mother from a terrible accident a bizarre chain of events is set in motion spanning many years. The atmosphere in their estate builds up until Orochi reveals a terrible truth that the family must keep hidden from the world. Orochi serves as the narrator of the story. The movie is based on a Kazuo Umezu manga series which ran from 1969 to 1970.
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- Director
- Norio Tsuruta
- Written by
- Kazuo Umezu, Hiroshi Takahashi
- Produced by
- Gen Sato, Masatake Kondo, Tsugio Hattori
- Editor
- Hiroshi Sunaga
- Studios
- TV Tokyo, Yahoo! Japan, Toei Video Company
- Origin country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Language
- ja
- TMDB
- 6.6/10 (8 votes)
- IMDb
- 6.2/10 (263 votes)
