Movie Info:
Title: The Devil's Ballad aka Rhyme of Vengeance
Original Title: Akuma no Temari-Uta
Country: Japan
Year: 1977
Director & Script: Kon Ichikawa
Original Story: Seishi Yokomizo
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Production: Toho
Cast: Koji Ishizaka, Keiko Kishi, Akiko Nishina...
Audio: Japanese
Subtitles: English embedded, English str and Spanish str
Runtime: 144 min.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075650/
Plot:
Several young girls in an isolated village are killed successively. Later it is found that the murderer seems to kill them according to a Bouncing Ball Ballad, gradually shown in the film.
Notes:
1) Not my rip.
2) #84 in Kinema Jumpo's Top 100 Japanese Movies of All Time.
3) In 1961 Toei released a movie adaptation directed by Kunio Watanabe:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0224597/
4) In 2009 Fuji TV released a tv movie:
http://www.fujitv.co.jp/temari/index.html (japanese only)
http://asianmediawiki.com/Akuma_no_Temari_Uta
http://www.asiatorrents.com/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=fadb57214ba55c3f63266395877f790301c14864
5) Inugamike no Ichizoku also have the presence of the two masters: original story by Seishi Yokomizo, direction by Kon Ichikawa.
http://www.asiatorrents.com/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=e83024f46dfb77d08c092c42ec91b595e3e8e0c6
http://www.asiatorrents.com/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=c8e2ccde0d27da055a1ac72e956663116eef6069
Technical Info:
General: Akuma no Temari-Uta.mkv
Format: Matroska at 870 Kbps
Length: 893 MiB for 2h 23mn 28s 600ms
Video #0: AVC at 642 Kbps
Aspect: 696 x 464 (1.333) at 23.976 fps
Audio #0: AC-3 at 224 Kbps
Infos: 2 channels, 48.0 KHz
Language: ja
Text #0: VobSub
Language: en