Kenpei to Barabara Shibijin

Kenpei to Barabara Shibijin (憲兵とバラバラ死美人; "The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty") is a 1957 black-and-white Japanese thriller film directed by Kyotaro Namiki and written by Akira Sugimoto, based on the book Notautsu Kanpei by Japanese military officer Keisuke Kosaka.^[2]

Kenpei to Barabara Shibijin
Directed by	Kyotaro Namiki
Written by	Akira Sugimoto
Cinematography	Shin Yamanaka
Music by	Masao Yoneyama
Distributed by	Shintoho
Release date	August 6, 1957 (1957-08-06)[1]
Running time	73 minutes[1]
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Cast

• Shōji Nakayama
• Kazuko Wakasugi
• Shigeru Amachi

Legacy

The film is best known for its association with the SNES game EarthBound. Its creator, Shigesato Itoi, accidentally walked in on the film as a child and mistook a murder scene for a rape scene, which traumatised him and inspired the eerie dialogue during the game's final boss battle with Giygas.^[3][4]