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...

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

The curse of a jealous woman destroys lovers on the run. Considered a lost film.

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 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...

Mitsue is a popular stage actress and the lover of a shamisen player named Seijuro. She jealously mu...

A tryst between the young warrior Hagiwara Shinzaburo and beautiful Otsuyu is discovered, and the sh...

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 ...

A former retainer to a noble family kills his wife's father when he tries to expose his past crimes....