A young girl named Sayuri is reunited with her estranged family after years in an orphange - but trouble lurks within the walls of the large family home. Her mother is an amnesiac after a car accident six months earlier, her sullen sister is confined to a hidden attic room, and a young housemade dies unexpectedly of a heart attack just before Sayuri arrives... is it all connected to her father's work studying venomous snakes? Starring Yuko Hamada, Sachiko Meguro, Yachi Matsui, Mayumi Takahashi, Sei Hiraizumi, Yoshiro Kitahara, Kuniko Miyake, and more. Music by Shunsuke Kikuchi. Cinematography by Akira Uehara. Original Story by Kazuo Umezu. Screenplay by Kimiyuki Hasegawa. Directed by Noriaki Yuasa.