During a fever, Tateo, the male protagonist believes he is dying and has the hallucination that his beautiful wife, Reiko (Tamaki Katori), the daughter of a wealthy family, is having an affair w/ another man. He then tells her an ancient Chinese story: the ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi wanted to test the faithfulness of his wife, so he faked his own death; the wife was grief-stricken and went into mourning. While funeral arrangements were in progress, a handsome young man came to call on Zhuangzi. Zhuangzi's wife soon fell into love w/ the young man and decided to marry hi. However, the young man fell ill; his servant said that the only medicine to cure him is human brain. Zhuangzi's wife eventually decided to break his husband's coffin and take his brain. However the young man turns out be Zhuangzi in disguise.

Two woodcutters spend the night in a mountain lodge after being caught in a snowstorm. A female spir...

Newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. Chow have landed themselves a beautiful yet remote home at Forever Garden, bu...

A samurai kills a blind man who tells him to repay his debts. Because of the samurai's actions his e...

A Buddhist monk becomes ensnared by a seductive woman who, according to legend, transforms her lover...

A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by...

Osen, a dance teacher who hates men, refuses to become the concubine of a rich merchant, but falls i...

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...

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...

A power struggle in the fief of Okazaki causes the death of Namiji, a nobleman's daughter. As her fi...

When a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her and...