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Akira Nishiguchi (西口 彰, Nishiguchi Akira, December 14, 1925 – December 11, 1970) was a Japanese serial killer and fraudster who murdered five people in late 1963. The focus of a national manhunt, Nishiguchi's crime spree came to an end in January 1964 when he was identified by the 10-year-old daughter of a potential victim.
Akira Nishiguchi: 5: through Japan: Serial killer Akira Nishiguchi cheats people, escapes from police officers in Japan, and kills five people. He is executed in 1970. His crimes became the basis for a book by Ryuzo Saki and the Shohei Imamura film Vengeance Is Mine. 1965
Vengeance Is Mine (Japanese: 復讐するは我にあり, Hepburn: Fukushū Suru wa Ware ni Ari) is a 1979 Japanese film directed by Shōhei Imamura, based on the book of the same name by Ryūzō Saki.
Akira Nishiguchi, Japanese serial killer (11 December 1970) Teo Cheng Leong, Singaporean armed robber (c. May 1971) Deniz Gezmiş, Turkish Marxist-Leninist revolutionary and political activist (6 May 1972) Liew Kim Siong and Kee Ah Tee, two Singaporean youths found guilty of murdering two Hongkongers at a factory during a robbery attempt (c. 1972)
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Nishiguchi (written: 西口) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: Akira Nishiguchi ( 西口 彰 , 1925–1970) , Japanese serial killer and fraudster
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Imamura returned to fiction with the 1979 Vengeance Is Mine, based on the true story of serial killer Akira Nishiguchi. Two large-scale remakes followed, Eijanaika (1981), a re-imagining of Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate, and The Ballad of Narayama (1983), a re-telling of Keisuke Kinoshita's 1958 The Ballad of Narayama.