The Black House

Description

A meek insurance adjuster named Wakatusuki (Masaaki Uchino) at the Showa Life Insurance company in Kanazawa, receives a phone call from a customer (Shinobu Ootake) who asks whether his company pays on a life insurance policy if the cause of death is suicide. Wakatusuki is then called to the home of a client named Shigenori. When he looks around Shigenori’s home, he discovers a body hanging from the ceiling in an apparent suicide. The body belongs Shigenori’s teenage son. Furthermore, Wakatusuki discovers that Shigenori has taken out an insurance policy on his wife … who happens to be the person that called him asking about the payout related to suicides.

Country: Japanese

Status: completed

Released: 1999

Genre: Horror

Cast: Nishimura Masahiko, Otake Shinobu, Tanaka Misato, Uchino Masaaki