The Curse of the Ghost

The Curse of the Ghost

1969 ja 94 minutes

Rating: 6.2

Plot

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.

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Cast

Kazuko Inano

Kazuko Inano

Oiwa

Kei Satō

Kei Satō

Iyemon

Yoshihiko Aoyama

Yoshihiko Aoyama

Yomoshichi, a Samurai

Akiji Kobayashi

Akiji Kobayashi

Naosuke

Kyoko Mikage

Kyoko Mikage

Sonosuke Sawamura

Sonosuke Sawamura

Jun Hamamura

Jun Hamamura

Yasuhiro Minakami

Yasuhiro Minakami

Gen Kimura

Gen Kimura

Tatsuo Hanabu

Tatsuo Hanabu

Saburo Date

Saburo Date

Ikuko Mōri

Ikuko Mōri

Yūsaku Terashima

Yūsaku Terashima

Shōzō Nanbu

Shōzō Nanbu

Tokio Oki

Tokio Oki

Chikako Masago

Chikako Masago

Kimiko Tachibana

Kimiko Tachibana

Teruko Ōmi

Teruko Ōmi

Shintarō Nanjō

Shintarō Nanjō

Hajime Koshikawa

Hajime Koshikawa

Sumao Ishihara

Sumao Ishihara

Sōji Shibata

Sōji Shibata

Tadashi Iwata

Tadashi Iwata

Takeshi Yabuuchi

Takeshi Yabuuchi

松田剛武

松田剛武

Yoshitaka Ito

Yoshitaka Ito

三藤頼枝

三藤頼枝

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