Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan
The Ghost Story of Yotsuya
(c)KOKUSAI HOEI
(c)KOKUSAI HOEI
- Release Date
- July, 1st, 1959
- Running Time
- 76 min
- Genre
- Feature
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- -
- Screen Size
- Cinema Scope (1:2.35)
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Cast ]
- AMACHI Shigeru ── TAMIYA Iemon
- WAKASUGI Katsuko ── Oiwa, his wife
- EMI Shuntaro ── Naosuke
[ Staff ]
- ONUKI Masayoshi ── Screenplay
- ISHIKAWA Yoshihiro ── Screenplay
- NISHIMOTO Tadashi ── Photography
- WATANABE Chumei ── Music
- KUROSAWA Haruyasu ── Art Direction
[ Production Company ]
SHINTOHO
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION FILMS
[ Story ]
Based on a kabuki play by TSURUYA Nanboku. After he is witnessed carrying out a murder, samurai Iemon falls prey to the manipulations of Naosuke. He later drives his wife Oiwa to suicide, incurring the wrath of her vengeful ghost. Nakagawa's bold tracking shots imbue the film with a dynamism rare for the ghost story genre, which is more typically associated with a sedateness of pace. The scene in which a blood-red mosquito net descends from the sky as Oiwa's ghost torments Iemon atop a floor of piled-up sliding doors achieves a surreal, fantastical effect.
Written by MIYAMOTO Noriaki
Translated by Adam Sutherland
[ Contact (International) ]
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