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 samurai kills a blind man who tells him to repay his debts. Because of the samurai's actions his e...
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 treasures of the Aoyamas were buried at the bottom of the sea when a large earthquake occurred y...
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...
During a fever, Tateo, the male protagonist believes he is dying and has the hallucination that his ...
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.
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...
One murky night, Soetsu, a blind acupuncturist and money lender, calls on Shinzaemon Fukami, a Hatam...