
The Curse of the Ghost
1969-06-28 · 94 min · ★ 6.8
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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- Directors
- Kazuo Mori
- Production companies
- Daiei Film
- Countries
- Japan
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Kazuko InanoOiwa
Kei SatōIyemon
Yoshihiko AoyamaYomoshichi, a Samurai
Akiji KobayashiNaosuke
Kyoko Mikage
Sonosuke Sawamura
Jun Hamamura
Yasuhiro Minakami
Gen Kimura
Tatsuo Hanabu
Saburo Date
Ikuko Mōri
Yūsaku Terashima
Shōzō Nanbu
Kimiko Tachibana
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