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 samurai kills a blind man who tells him to repay his debts. Because of the samurai's actions his e...
A master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special tree fo...
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 man’s wife dies in a swamp. Her ghost returns to haunt him.
A popular dance master in Edo meets a yakuza man, and the maddened master is killed in the end of th...
Osen, a dance teacher who hates men, refuses to become the concubine of a rich merchant, but falls i...
Classic kaidan ghost story set in the Edo period
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...
One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy me...
Nishina Saburouta is powerful but corrupted priest. One night, an old samurai who couldn't bear him ...
Horror film directed by Koji Shima.
About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei S...
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...