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.
The boozy mercenary of the title, based on the actual historical figure of Naoyuki Ban (1567-1615), ...
Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear.
A samurai kills a blind man who tells him to repay his debts. Because of the samurai's actions his e...
A former retainer to a noble family kills his wife's father when he tries to expose his past crimes....
The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro; to ge...
A man’s wife dies in a swamp. Her ghost returns to haunt him.
A work with the motif of a legend that remains in the mountain villages of Shinshu and Hida. A white...
A popular dance master in Edo meets a yakuza man, and the maddened master is killed in the end of th...
A woman abandoned by the man she loved all her life becomes a ghost and takes revenge for her offens...
A store manager named Kinbei becomes enraged when the owners of the store decide to hand it down to ...
The treasures of the Aoyamas were buried at the bottom of the sea when a large earthquake occurred y...
Follows the murder of a money-lending masseur by an impoverished samurai. The slain masseur's daught...
Princess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but feel...
Features a haunted well with yet another blind masseur's vengeful ghost.
One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy me...
Horror film directed by Satoru Kobayashi. Kin'ya Ogawa served as Kobayashi's assistant on this film.