Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern (1962)
One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy merchant named Matasaburo, who had run away from home with a woman he was in love with and had been living here. But this funeral was actually a kyogen (a farce) orchestrated by a gardener named Yunosuke, who had planted it without telling his wife, Okinu, in order to bilk his parents out of their money. Matasaburo believed Yunosuke, who said he would dig him up right away, and was buried in the ground. ......
Director: Katsuhiko Tasaka
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Ganjirō Nakamura II as |
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Katsuhiko Kobayashi as |
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Reiko Fujiwara as |
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Chizuko Takamori as |
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Yukio Horikita as |
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Hiroshi Nawa as |
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Shintarō Nanjō as |
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Fumihiko Yokoyama as |
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Kimiko Tachibana as |
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Keiko Koyanagi as |
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Teruko Ōmi as |
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Masayoshi Kikuno as |
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Noboru Taniguchi as |
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Kazuko Taniguchi as |
| Directing | Katsuhiko Tasaka | Director |
| Writing | Minoru Inuzuka | Writer |
| Sound | Nakaba Takahashi | Original Music Composer |