Ghost of the Pearl Divers

0.0

The Temptress and the Monk

August 1957 •Japanese

A Buddhist monk becomes ensnared by a seductive woman who, according to legend, transforms her lovers into beasts.

6.7

Curse of the Blood

May 1968 •Japanese

A samurai kills a blind man who tells him to repay his debts. Because of the samurai's actions his entire family is to bear a terrible curse.

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Ghost Story: One Eyed Jizo

July 1959 •Japanese

A woman abandoned by the man she loved all her life becomes a ghost and takes revenge for her offense!

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The Living Koheiji

August 1957 •Japanese

The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro; to get her, he would even kill Takuro.

3.0

The Priest and the Beauty

August 1960 •Japanese

Princess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but feels irritated by Anchin’s indifference to her in spite of her beauty. One night, while Anchin is recuperating in a hot spring, he is approached by Kiyo. She tells him that she is in love with him.

8.0

Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp

June 1963 •Japanese

Nishina Saburouta is powerful but corrupted priest. One night, an old samurai who couldn't bear him any more, attempts to kill him, but without success. Saburouta is rescued by his niece, Keisuke at the last moment. Keisuke is a a good-for-nothing. Since that event, he always turns to his uncle when he needs money. Recently Keisuke feels his uncle isn't as generous as he used to be, he suspects that Saburouta has found out the illicit relation between Keisuke and his uncle's young mistress, Ohasu.

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The Pit of Death

June 1968 •Japanese

Kuramoto, who works for a large trading company, is a skilled employee who is well-liked by the company president. He is engaged to an employee named Nishino Etsuko, but he used her for his own career advancement and kills her so that he can marry the company president's daughter. When Kuramoto returns from his honeymoon with his new wife, Etsuko's brother shows up in search of the whereabouts of his missing sister.

6.2

The Curse of the Ghost

June 1969 •Japanese

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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Masseur’s Curse

June 1970 •Japanese

One murky night, Soetsu, a blind acupuncturist and money lender, calls on Shinzaemon Fukami, a Hatamoto samurai, to collect some money. But Fukami is too busy having an affair with a maid and curtly tells Soetsu to ask Sawano, his wife, for the money. As they have no money, Sawano interprets her husband's words as telling her to give herself to Soetsu in lieu of payment. However, Fukami catches them in the act and kills them both. Snatching up Soetsu's money bag with 30 ryo in it, he then asks two ruffians, to sink the bodies in a marsh. From what follows, it seems as if the spirits of Soetsu and Sawano are still hovering on earth in anguish and anger. For soon afterwards, Fukami is found dead by his own hand and Osono, Soetsu's younger daughter, suddenly disappears from home.

7.1

The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing

December 1954 •Japanese

A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by the vengeful murder victim.

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The Passion of a Woman Teacher

July 1926 •Japanese

The curse of a jealous woman destroys lovers on the run. Considered a lost film.

7.8

The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen

November 1938 •Japanese

A quintessential example of the period "ghost cat" (bakeneko or kaibyo) movie, this was one of at least six such titles released by the studio Shinko Kinema between 1937-40 featuring Japan's first scream queen, Sumiko Suzuki. Here she plays Mitsue, the possessive onna-kabuki actress betrothed to apprentice shamisen player Seijiro. When one day Okiyo, a beautiful young girl of samurai class, is led to Seijiro's house by his lost cat Kuro, she becomes besotted with him. Dark jealous passions are invoked in Mitsue, which are intensified when Seijiro gifts Okiyo his precious shamisen. The cat is the first to suffer at the end of Mitsue's hairpin, but returns from the grave to assist Okiyo's younger sister Onui avenge her sister's murder.

6.5

Ghost Cat of Nabeshima

August 1949 •Japanese

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has a mysterious legend surrounding it; it's believed that for every game played on the board, one death is required.

7.5

Ghost of Saga Mansion

September 1953 •Japanese

A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat begins haunting the conspirators. This is Takako Irie's first bakeneko (ghost cat) movie; it started a Daiei cycle which was very popular at the time in Japan.

8.0

Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki

March 1954 •Japanese

The Lord of Okazaki is killed by his brother-in-law. Although the Lord's widow bears a child, she is also killed. Then, a ghost cat begins stalking in the castle.

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A Samurai's Love

March 1954 •Japanese

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.

5.0

Returning Spirit

July 1955 •Japanese

A tryst between the young warrior Hagiwara Shinzaburo and beautiful Otsuyu is discovered, and the shamed Otsuyu commits suicide with her maid. Their ghosts subsequently appear to Shinzaburo. He obtains a door-protecting charm and a statue of the goddess Kannon from a priest to keep the spirits from his home. A conniving servant removes the protective devices so that Otsuyu can reach her lover and cart him away to the land of the dead.

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Appeal on the Cross

June 1956 •Japanese

Kusuo Abe stars in this kaidan.

8.0

The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations

July 1956 •Japanese

A power struggle in the fief of Okazaki causes the death of Namiji, a nobleman's daughter. As her fiancé seeks revenge, he finds Namiji's cat helping him, along the Fifty-Three stations of the Tokaido Road. Co-starring Shintarô Katsu and Takako Irie.

7.0

The Ghost-Cat Cursed Wall

June 1958 •Japanese

When a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her and her cat and has their bodies immured in a wall. Shortly afterwards, a catlike demon begins to haunt the castle.

Ghost of the Pearl Divers

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Cast

Jūzaburō Akechi

Katsuko Wakasugi

Kyôko Yashiro

Masayo Banri

Shinsuke Mikimoto

Kyōji Kokonoe

Masaru Kodaka

Rei Ishikawa

Hiroaki Kurahashi

Sakutarō Yamakawa

Tomohiko Ôtani

Saburō Sawai

Akiko Yamashita

Kyōko Ōgimachi

Reiko Akiyama

Akiko Kujo

Takamitsu Watanabe

Tetsuya Chiba

Kaoru Katsumata

Kazuki Nishi

Shinji Suzuki

Baku Mizuhara

Kiyoko Tsuji

Sayuri Mitani

Tōru Chiba

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