
Moment of Terror
1966-04-16 · 95 min · ★ 5.9
When the only son of a working class woman is fatally struck by a car driven by the adulterous wife of a company president in a hit-and-run, the victim's mother changes her identity and infiltrates the couple's home to work as their maid, plotting to murder their similarly-aged son.
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- Directors
- Mikio Naruse
- Production companies
- TOHO
- Countries
- Japan
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Hideko TakamineKuniko, the Mother
Yōko TsukasaKinuko Kakinuma
Eitarō OzawaKakinuma
Daisuke KatōKawashima
Jin NakayamaSusumu Ogasawara
Toshio KurosawaKuniko's younger brother
Natsuko KaharaFumie
Kumeko UrabeHisako Kanematsu
Yoshio Inaba
Takeshi Katō
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Yutaka Sada
Kan Yanagiya
Hisao Toake
Yoshibumi Tajima
Hirayoshi Aono
Chieko Nakakita
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