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Tôkaidô Yotsuya kaidan (1959)
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11 July 1959 (Japan)
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The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband. full summary | add synopsis
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`O, the fury of a maddened woman is truly the greatest horror there is.'
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Shigeru Amachi | ... | Iemon Tamiya |
| Noriko Kitazawa | ... | Sode |
| Katsuko Wakasugi | ... | Iwa |
| Shuntarô Emi | ... | Naosuke |
| Ryûzaburô Nakamura | ... | Yomoshichi |
| Junko Ikeuchi | ... | Ume Itô |
| Jun Ôtomo | ... | Takuetsu |
| Hiroshi Hayashi | ||
| Shinjirô Asano | ... | Samon |
| Arata Shibata | ||
| Kikuko Hanaoka | ... | Maki |
| Hiroshi Sugi | ||
| Yôzô Takamura | ||
| Nagamasa Yamada | ||
| Hiroshi Izumida |
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Also Known As:
Ghost Story of Yotsuya (DVD title)
The Ghost of Yotsuya (International: English title)
Yotsuya Ghost Story in Tokaido (literal English title)
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The Ghost of Yotsuya (International: English title)
Yotsuya Ghost Story in Tokaido (literal English title)
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76 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Referenced in Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku' (2006) (V)
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And who can fault Iwa's fury? Her husband Iemon murders her father to marry her, deceives her into parting from her sister, fathers her child, pays another man to seduce her, then administers a disfiguring poison so he can marry another woman. Yet Iemon is not wholly wicked - he suffers pangs of conscience, and most of his crimes are the result of his servant's goading. Whilst our sympathy goes to Iwa, our empathy extends to Iemon. The film is endowed with the dimensions of a classical tragedy, as the director undoubtedly intended. In fact, the picture's opening scenes are unabashedly stage-bound, before it shifts subtly into an engrossing cinematic experience. Although the story has been adapted to film many times in Japan, this is generally considered the definitive version.
Besides its dramatic power, this version of Ghost Story of Yotsuya is visually sumptuous and thrillingly scored, the scope compositions are masterly, and the female phantom's appearance is truly nightmarish.
This is easily the most accomplished, frightening and satisfying of Nakagawa's period ghost stories.