The Curse of the Ghost
四谷怪談 お岩の亡霊
Rating: 6.8 · 1969 · Horror · Japan · 1 ч 34 мин
Description
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.
Information
- Original title
- 四谷怪談 お岩の亡霊
- Year
- 1969
- Genre
- Horror
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1 ч 34 мин
- TMDB
- 6.8
- IMDb
- 6.8
Director
Cast
- Kazuko Inano — Oiwa
- Kei Satō — Iyemon
- Yoshihiko Aoyama — Yomoshichi, a Samurai
- Akiji Kobayashi — Naosuke
- Kyoko Mikage
- Sonosuke Sawamura
- Jun Hamamura
- Yasuhiro Minakami
- Gen Kimura
- Tatsuo Hanabu
- Saburo Date
- Ikuko Mōri
- Yūsaku Terashima
- Shōzō Nanbu
- Tokio Oki
- Chikako Masago
- Kimiko Tachibana
- Teruko Ōmi
- Shintarō Nanjō
- Hajime Koshikawa