The Curse of the Ghost
About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei Sato) who is used to luxury and cannot adjust to the hand-to-mouth conditions & piecework of umbrella making. Having hired ruffians to make him look like a superior swordsman, he arranges for himself the opportunity of a profitable marriage. He hires the half-blind masseur Takuetsu (Sawamura Sounosuke) to seduce or rape his wife (Kyoko Mikage), so that she can be divorced or killed for adultery. But the masseur takes pity & informs Oiwa of her husband's horrid plot. Assisted by the merchant's daughter he intends to marry, Iyemon disfigures his wife attempting to poison her so he can marry higher. There's a lovingly gruesome sequence as she combs blad patches into her hair, kneeling deformed at her mirror, weeping with bitterness. She eventually cuts her own throat, swearing revenge.
Year: 1969
Genre: Horror
Studio: Daiei Film
Director: Kazuo Mori
Cast: Kazuko Inano, Kei Satō, Yoshihiko Aoyama, Akiji Kobayashi, Kyoko Mikage, Sonosuke Sawamura
Crew: Kinya Naoi (Writer), Nanboku Tsuruya (Original Story), Hitoshi Obuchi (Assistant Director), Kazuo Mori (Director), Ichirō Saitō (Original Music Composer)
Runtime: 94 minutes
Release: Jun 28, 1969
IMDb: 6.20/10 by 4 users
Popularity: 0
Country: Japan
Language: 日本語
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Keyword : kaidan
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