Follows the murder of a money-lending masseur by an impoverished samurai. The slain masseur's daughter will also fall victim to his curse, so that she can become empowered as an agent of her father's vengeance.
The boozy mercenary of the title, based on the actual historical figure of Naoyuki Ban (1567-1615), ...
Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear.
A ghost story about a woman who dies a violent death and appears to the man she loves as a vengeful ...
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...
In Numada, Jyoshu, Seijun's mistress dies a horrible death at the hands of a gang of vicious vassals...
The video is a compilation of six short stories based on Japanese folklore legends. Each story is ap...
The curse of a jealous woman destroys lovers on the run. Considered a lost film.
A quintessential example of the period "ghost cat" (bakeneko or kaibyo) movie, this was one of at le...
Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a ...
A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat...
Okoyo, the mistress of Lord Arima, fears that she is being replaced by a younger woman named Otaki. ...
The Lord of Okazaki is killed by his brother-in-law. Although the Lord's widow bears a child, she is...
A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.
A tryst between the young warrior Hagiwara Shinzaburo and beautiful Otsuyu is discovered, and the sh...