Movie: The Curse of the Ghost

Top 10 Billed Cast

Kazuko Inano
稲野和子

Oiwa

Kei Satō
佐藤慶

Iyemon

Yoshihiko Aoyama
青山良彦

Yomoshichi, a Samurai

Akiji Kobayashi
小林昭二

Naosuke

Kyoko Mikage
御影京子

Sonosuke Sawamura
二代目 澤村宗之助

Jun Hamamura
浜村純

Yasuhiro Minakami
水上保広

Gen Kimura
木村元

Tatsuo Hanabu
花布辰男

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1969-06-28

  • Average

    6.2

  • Rating:

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    日本語
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