The Curse of the Ghost (1969)
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.
Director: Kazuo Mori
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Kazuko Inano as Oiwa |
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Kei Satō as Iyemon |
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Yoshihiko Aoyama as Yomoshichi, a Samurai |
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Akiji Kobayashi as Naosuke |
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Kyoko Mikage as |
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Sonosuke Sawamura as |
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Jun Hamamura as |
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Yasuhiro Minakami as |
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Gen Kimura as |
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Tatsuo Hanabu as |
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Saburo Date as |
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Ikuko Mōri as |
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Yūsaku Terashima as |
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Shōzō Nanbu as |
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Tokio Oki as |
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Chikako Masago as |
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Kimiko Tachibana as |
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Teruko Ōmi as |
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Shintarō Nanjō as |
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Hajime Koshikawa as |
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Sumao Ishihara as |
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Sōji Shibata as |
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Tadashi Iwata as |
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Takeshi Yabuuchi as |
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松田剛武 as |
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Yoshitaka Ito as |
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Yorie Santo as |
| Writing | Kinya Naoi | Writer |
| Writing | Nanboku Tsuruya | Original Story |
| Directing | Hitoshi Obuchi | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Kazuo Mori | Director |
| Sound | Ichirō Saitō | Original Music Composer |
