Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit (1968)
Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife. To avoid her fate, Lady Takafusa drowns herself along with her cat in a nearby marsh. A decade later, Naoshige’s efforts to steal another woman trigger a curse on him when she also commits suicide at the same marsh — forcing him to suffer the consequences of his past actions.
Director: Yoshihiro Ishikawa
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Ryōhei Uchida as Nabeshima Naoshige |
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Kōtarō Satomi as Yuki Jonosuke |
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Kyoko Mikage as Yukiji |
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Masumi Tachibana as Lady Orin |
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Yuriko Mishima as Yuri |
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Machiko Yashiro as Lady Hyuga |
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Misa Toki as Sayo |
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Mitsuko Yoshikawa as Kumi |
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Keiichiro Shimada as Ryuzoji Takafusa |
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Kenji Kusumoto as Sasaki Hayato |
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Yōichi Numata as Torakichi |
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Bunta Sugawara as Shibayama Ukon |
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Kinji Nakamura as Doctor |
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Ichitarō Kuni as Ukon's subordinate |
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Kinya Suzuki as Zuimeiji priest |
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Mitsukazu Kawamura as |
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Tokuko Miura as Fujiki |
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Ryūko Azuma as |
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Chiyo Okada as Princess Kiyo |
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Yasuko Ogura as Satsuki |
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Taizen Shishido as |
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Hideto Kagawa as Chiyomaru |
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Tadashi Katō as |
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Masatoshi Ōya as |
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Mie Hayashi as The Tsuyamas' maid |
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Minori Tsukasa as |
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Keiko Kojima as Matsushima |
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Hiroshi Nawa as Kuroiwa Shuzen |
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Tatsuo Matsumura as Tsuyama Mataemon |
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Takayuki Akutagawa as Narrator (voice) |
| Directing | Yoshihiro Ishikawa | Director |
| Writing | Yoshihiro Ishikawa | Writer |
| Lighting | Hiroshi Watada | Lighting Technician |
| Camera | Shigeru Akatsuka | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Kozo Horiike | Editor |
| Art | Norimichi Igawa | Art Direction |
| Sound | Toshirō Sasaki | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Isao Tomita | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | Toshiyuki Fujiwara | Assistant Director |