A mysterious tattoo artist puts his masterpiece, a human-faced spider, on a kidnapped woman's back. She and her lover are then forced into a conspiracy-born nightmare, where they face the danger of becoming the very evil they seek to escape. With each new bloody incident, the spider's face seems to redden with ever-growing hunger.
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| Directing | Yasuzō Masumura | Director |
| Writing | Junichirō Tanizaki | Novel |
| Camera | Kazuo Miyagawa | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Hikaru Hayashi | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Kaneto Shindō | Screenplay |
| Editing | Kanji Suganuma | Editor |
| Art | Yoshinobu Nishioka | Art Direction |
| Sound | Masao Ôsumi | Sound |
| Production | Hiroshi Ozawa | Producer |