Rent The Ghost of Yotsuya (1959)
3.4 of 5 from 45 ratings
1h 16min
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- Synopsis:
Samurai lemon (Kazuo Hasegawa) has grown distant from his wife Oiwa (Yasuko Nakada) since she miscarried. Oume (Yôko Uraji), the pretty young daughter of a wealthy family, falls madly in love with lemon after he saves her from a group of drunk swordsmen. Oiwa learns about the blossoming affair and grows despondent. Without his knowledge, lemon's associates conspire to clear the way for him to marry Oume by poisoning his wife. But Oiwa returns from the grave as a horribly disfigured ghost to haunt lemon and her tormentors. Director Kenji Misumi (Lone Wolf and Cub) and writer Fuji Yahiro (Sansho the Bailiff, Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji) turn the quintessential Japanese ghost story into a profoundly resonant doomed romance, with chilling ghost scenes that would leave a deep mark on the creators of J-horror. - Actors:
- Kazuo Hasegawa, Yasuko Nakada, Yôko Uraji, Mieko Kondô, Jôji Tsurumi, Narutoshi Hayashi, Hideo Takamatsu, Chieko Murata, Kôichi Aihara, Shinobu Araki, San'emon Arashi, Okuzan Asao, Ryonosuke Azuma, Saburô Date, Takaji Fukui, Setsuko Hama, Yûshi Hamada, Yukio Horikita, Tadashi Iwata, Kiyoshi Kasuga
- Directors:
- Kenji Misumi
- Producers:
- Nobuo Miura
- Writers:
- Fuji Yahiro
- Aka:
- Yotsuya kaidan / Yotsuya Ghost Story
- Genres:
- Classics, Horror, Romance
- Countries:
- Japan
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 28/10/2024
- Run Time:
- 83 minutes
- Languages:
- Japanese LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.39:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Appreciation by filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (2024, 20 mins)
- The Endless Curse of Oiwa - A visual essay by Japanese film expert Kyoko Hirano (2024, 22 mins)
- Trailer
