Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales
| Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales | |
Cover of the first released DVD by Geneon Universal Entertainment
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| 怪 | |
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| Genre | Horror |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Tetsuo Imazawa (Yotsuya Kaidan) Hidehiko Kadota (Tenshu Monogatari) Kouzou Nagayama (Tenshu Monogatari) Kenji Nakamura (Bake Neko) |
| Written by |
Chiaki J. Konaka (Yotsuya Kaidan) Yuuji Sakamoto (Tenshu Monogatari) Michiko Yokote (Bakeneko) |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
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| Original network | Fuji TV (Noitamina), Animax |
| English network | |
| Original run | January 13, 2006 – March 24, 2006 |
| Episodes | 11 |
Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales, known in Japan as Ayakashi (怪?), is a Japanese animated horror anthology television series produced by Toei Animation.
The series is made up of three stories: "Yotsuya Ghost Story", an adaptation of the classic Japanese ghost story; "Goddess of the Dark Tower", based on the play by Kyōka Izumi; and Goblin Cat, an original story by Kenji Nakamura and Michiko Yokote.
"Yotsuya Ghost Story" is a retelling of the classic Japanese ghost story, written by the 18th century kabuki playwright Nanboku Tsuruya IV.
In the anime, Nanboku himself becomes the narrator. Iemon Tamiya is a ronin samurai who marries a beautiful woman named Oiwa. Oiwa is happy with her married life and the birth of their child, but Iemon feels the burden of their poverty.
In return for the promise of a job by a rich man, Iemon promises to marry the man's daughter and conspires to murder his own wife. A servant is ordered by the rich man's daughter to poison Oiwa's food; the toxin permanently disfigures Oiwa's face.
Iemon then orders his servant to kill her after having his way with her. Oiwa commits suicide after coming to know of Iemon's treachery. Another of Iemon's servants is also killed and, along with the dead Oiwa, is nailed to a piece of wooden board and tossed into the river.
After Oiwa's death, Iemon marries the rich man's daughter, as promised. But Oiwa's vengeful spirit could not rest in peace, and she lays a curse on everyone involved with her demise. One by one, Oiwa's enemies die a horrible death, including the rich man and his daughter, and Iemon is plagued by visions of Oiwa's ghost.
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