The Living Skeleton
Director Hiroshi Matsuno began working at the film production company Shochiku in 1950 and worked as an assistant director for filmmakers such as Daisuke Itō, Mikio Naruse, and Yoshitarō Nomura. Matsuno directed a few films starring Bunta Sugawara in the early sixties before working on "The Living Skeleton". "The Living Skeleton" was co-written by Kikuma Shimoiizaka, a prolific mystery novelist in Japan. "The Living Skeleton" was released on November 9, 1968 in Japan. It was released as a double feature with "Genocide". It was released on DVD by the Criterion Collection in a box set on November 20, 2012. The other films in the box set included "The X from Outer Space", "Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell", and "Genocide". Slant Magazine referred to "The Living Skeleton" as "representing the peak of Shochiku's dalliance with horror convention" and a "chilling and genuinely unnerving black-and-white update of the bygone kaidan tradition". The "Austin Chronicle" referred to the film as "probably the most conventional of Schochiku's horror releases"
Professor Wheeler Winston Dixon of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln referred to the Criterion Collection's Eclipse set, calling the film "the most accomplished and sophisticated of the quartet in terms of its visual structure and narrative" and along with "Genocide", "easily the most interesting entries".
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is a 1968 Japanese tokusatsu horror film directed by Hiroshi Matsuno.