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Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern
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Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern

1962-06-24 · 73 min · ★ 8.0

Horror

One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy merchant named Matasaburo, who had run away from home with a woman he was in love with and had been living here. But this funeral was actually a kyogen (a farce) orchestrated by a gardener named Yunosuke, who had planted it without telling his wife, Okinu, in order to bilk his parents out of their money. Matasaburo believed Yunosuke, who said he would dig him up right away, and was buried in the ground. ......

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Directors
Katsuhiko Tasaka
Production companies
Daiei Film
Countries
Japan
Status
Released

Top Cast

Ganjirō Nakamura IIGanjirō Nakamura II
Katsuhiko KobayashiKatsuhiko Kobayashi
Reiko FujiwaraReiko Fujiwara
Chizuko Takamori
Yukio HorikitaYukio Horikita
Hiroshi NawaHiroshi Nawa
Shintarō Nanjō
Fumihiko Yokoyama
Kimiko TachibanaKimiko Tachibana
Keiko KoyanagiKeiko Koyanagi
Teruko ŌmiTeruko Ōmi
Masayoshi Kikuno
Noboru Taniguchi
Kazuko Taniguchi

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