The Curse of the Ghost

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

June 28, 1969

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

Daiei Film

Cast

Yoshihiko Aoyama,Gen Kimura,Yoshitaka Ito,Takeshi Yabuuchi,Sumao Ishihara,Chikako Masago,Kimiko Tachibana,Akiji Kobayashi,Shintarō Nanjō,Yūsaku Terashimaand 17 more

Director

Kazuo Mori

Writer

Kinya Naoi,Nanboku Tsuruya

Music

Ichirō Saitō

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0165552