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.

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

Mitsue is a popular stage actress and the lover of a shamisen player named Seijuro. She jealously mu...
A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.

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...

Utaji heard that her ex-lover Seijirou would get married to Ochiyo a daughter of Ise-ya. She murdere...

A painter leaves his family to paint the homes of his rich clients. A lonely, ruthless samurai falls...

A ghost story about a woman who dies a violent death and appears to the man she loves as a vengeful ...

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...

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...
Horror film directed by Satoru Kobayashi. Kin'ya Ogawa served as Kobayashi's assistant on this film.