One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy merchant named Matasaburo, who had run away from home with a woman he was in love with and had been living here. But this funeral was actually a kyogen (a farce) orchestrated by a gardener named Yunosuke, who had planted it without telling his wife, Okinu, in order to bilk his parents out of their money. Matasaburo believed Yunosuke, who said he would dig him up right away, and was buried in the ground. ......

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

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

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

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...

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

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 ...

Follows the murder of a money-lending masseur by an impoverished samurai. The slain masseur's daught...

Features a haunted well with yet another blind masseur's vengeful ghost.

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