About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei Sato) who is used to luxury and cannot adjust to the hand-to-mouth conditions & piecework of umbrella making. Having hired ruffians to make him look like a superior swordsman, he arranges for himself the opportunity of a profitable marriage. He hires the half-blind masseur Takuetsu (Sawamura Sounosuke) to seduce or rape his wife (Kyoko Mikage), so that she can be divorced or killed for adultery. But the masseur takes pity & informs Oiwa of her husband's horrid plot. Assisted by the merchant's daughter he intends to marry, Iyemon disfigures his wife attempting to poison her so he can marry higher. There's a lovingly gruesome sequence as she combs blad patches into her hair, kneeling deformed at her mirror, weeping with bitterness. She eventually cuts her own throat, swearing revenge.

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...

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

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 ...

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.

One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy me...

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

Kuramoto, who works for a large trading company, is a skilled employee who is well-liked by the comp...

One murky night, Soetsu, a blind acupuncturist and money lender, calls on Shinzaemon Fukami, a Hatam...
Horror filmed directed by Kinya Ogawa.