Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern

Overview

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. ......

Details

Status

Released

Release date

June 24, 1962

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

Daiei Film

Cast

Shintarō Nanjō,Chizuko Takamori,Kimiko Tachibana,Noboru Taniguchi,Masayoshi Kikuno,Katsuhiko Kobayashi,Keiko Koyanagi,Ganjirō Nakamura II,Fumihiko Yokoyama,Yukio Horikitaand 4 more

Director

Katsuhiko Tasaka

Writer

Minoru Inuzuka

Music

Nakaba Takahashi

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0202962