Moment of Terror
1966, Japanese. Directed by Mikio Naruse.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
- Rated
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Cast & crew
- Mikio NaruseDirector
- 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 InabaCast
- Takeshi KatōCast
- Yoshio TsuchiyaCast
- Yutaka SadaCast
Details
- Released
- 16 April 1966
- Original title
- ひき逃げ
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Zenzō Matsuyama
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Moment of Terror runs 95 minutes (1h 35m).
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Moment of Terror isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 16 April 1966. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed Moment of Terror?
Moment of Terror (1966) was directed by Mikio Naruse and stars Hideko Takamine, Yōko Tsukasa, Eitarō Ozawa.