Movie Description
四谷怪談 お岩の亡霊
(1969)Overview
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.
Featured Crew
- Director : Kazuo Mori
- Writer : Kinya Naoi
- Cast : Kazuko Inano,Kei Satō,Yoshihiko Aoyama,Akiji Kobayashi,Kyoko Mikage,Sonosuke Sawamura,Jun Hamamura,Yasuhiro Minakami,Gen Kimura,Tatsuo Hanabu,Saburo Date,Ikuko Mōri,Yūsaku Terashima,Shōzō Nanbu,Tokio Oki,Chikako Masago,Kimiko Tachibana,Teruko Ōmi,Shintarō Nanjō,Hajime Koshikawa,Sumao Ishihara,Sōji Shibata,Tadashi Iwata,Takeshi Yabuuchi,松田剛武,Yoshitaka Ito,Yorie Santo
Cast
Oiwa
Iyemon
Yomoshichi, a Samurai
Naosuke
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Facts
Original Title四谷怪談 お岩の亡霊
Status Released
Release Information
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1969-06-28
Original LanguageUnknown
Runtime 01h 34m
Production CompaniesDaiei Film
Genres
- Horror
