Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan
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| Directed by | Nobuo Nakagawa |
| Produced by | Mitsugu Okura |
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Masayoshi Ônuki (screenplay) Yoshihiro Ishikawa (screenplay) Nanboku Tsuruya (play) |
| Starring | Shigeru Amachi |
| Music by | Michiaki Watanabe |
| Cinematography | Tadashi Nishimoto |
| Distributed by | Shintoho |
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76 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan (東海道四谷怪談?) is a 1959 Japanese horror film, directed by Nobuo Nakagawa and based on the 19th century Japanese kabuki play by Nanboku Tsuruya titled Yotsuya Kaidan.
The film falls in a trend of Japanese horror films throughout the 1950s and 1960s. In these ghost story films, greed commonly leads to murder and extramarital affairs, many involving former Samurai characters.
Ruthless samurai Iemon Tamiya wants to marry Iwa and when her father refuses, Iemon kills him and disposes of the body with assistance of Naosuke. Later, tiring of his wife and wishing to marry the heiress Ume Itō, Iemon plots to murder his wife by mixing a poison into her tea and also killing her admirer Takuetsu. Her health deteriorates into a slow agonizing death. The ghosts of Iwa and Takuetsu appear and take vengeance on Iemon and his new wife.
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