The Curse of the Ghost

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Sinossi in inglese

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.

Cast

K Kazuko InanoOiwa K Kei SatōIyemon Y Yoshihiko AoyamaYomoshichi, a Samurai A Akiji KobayashiNaosuke K Kyoko Mikage S Sonosuke Sawamura J Jun Hamamura Y Yasuhiro Minakami G Gen Kimura T Tatsuo Hanabu S Saburo Date I Ikuko Mōri

Mostra altri interpreti

Y Yūsaku Terashima S Shōzō Nanbu T Tokio Oki C Chikako Masago K Kimiko Tachibana T Teruko Ōmi S Shintarō Nanjō H Hajime Koshikawa S Sumao Ishihara S Sōji Shibata T Tadashi Iwata T Takeshi Yabuuchi 松 松田剛武 Y Yoshitaka Ito Y Yorie Santo