1969 · 94 min · horror

Yotsuya kaidan - Oiwa no borei

Znany też jako: Curse of the Ghost · The Curse of the Night · The Ghost of Oiwa · The Ghost of Yotsuya · The Oiwa Phantom · 四谷怪談 お岩の亡霊

Opis filmu

Opis oryginalny: japoński

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.

Reżyseria i główne role

Reżyseria: Kazuo Mori

Główne role: Kei Sato jako Iyemon, Yoshihiko Aoyama jako Yomoshichi, a Samurai, Akiji Kobayashi jako Naosuke, Jun Hamamura jako Oiwa's Father, Gen Kimura jako Okuda, Kazuko Inano jako Oiwa

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Kinya Naoi, Nanboku Tsuruya