Ten Dark Women

{{Infobox film

| name = Ten Dark Women

| image = TenDarkWomen.jpg

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| director = Kon Ichikawa

| producer = Hiroaki Fujii
Masaichi Nagata

| writer = Natto Wada

| based_on =

| starring =

| music = Yasushi Akutagawa

| cinematography = Setsao Kobayashi

| editing = Tatsuji Nakashizu

| distributor = Daiei Film

| released = {{film date|1961|5|3|df=yes}}

| runtime = 105 minutes

| country = Japan

| language = Japanese

| budget =

}}

Ten Dark Women ({{nihongo||黒い十人の女|Kuroi jûnin no onna}}, literally "ten black women") is a 1961 Japanese film directed by Kon Ichikawa.{{cite web|url=http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/%E9%BB%92%E3%81%84%E5%8D%81%E4%BA%BA%E3%81%AE%E5%A5%B3|title=Kinema Junpo Eiga Detabesu - Kuroi Junin No Onna|accessdate=26 February 2012}}{{richie-japanese-movie|164}}{{cite web|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E9%BB%92%E3%81%84%E5%8D%81%E4%BA%BA%E3%81%AE%E5%A5%B3-751604|title=黒い十人の女|publisher=kotobank|accessdate=27 December 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/Details?id=8514|title=黒い十人の女|publisher=Agency for Cultural Affairs|accessdate=27 December 2020}}

Plot

A married television executive has many mistresses. Nine of the mistresses and his wife band together and plan to kill him. His wife tells him they are planning to kill him and they fake his death at a meeting of all ten women using a pistol loaded with blanks and a tomato.

The other women tell her that they were not really serious about killing him and run away. One of the women, Miwako, commits suicide, and her ghost comes back to view the proceedings. Then they find out that he is not really dead, and they decide to kill him again.

His wife divorces him and one of the other women takes him on.

Staff

class=wikitable

|Sound Recordist

| Kenichi Nishii

Art Director

| Tomoo Shimokawahara

Special effects

| Yonesaburo Tsukiji{{Cite web|title=築地米三郎|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0267680.htm|access-date=2021-08-06|website=www.jmdb.ne.jp}}

Reception

Donald Richie describes it as "an extraordinarily black comedy ... the hilarious hell of a man whose wife, mistresses and girlfriends conspire to murder him".