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Histoire de fantômes japonais

Original title: Tôkaidô Yotsuya kaidan
  • 1959
  • 1h 16m
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
2.1K
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Histoire de fantômes japonais (1959)
Folk HorrorSupernatural HorrorHorror

The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.

  • Director
    • Nobuo Nakagawa
  • Writers
    • Masayoshi Ônuki
    • Yoshihiro Ishikawa
    • Nanboku Tsuruya
  • Stars
    • Shigeru Amachi
    • Noriko Kitazawa
    • Katsuko Wakasugi
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    7.0/10
    2.1K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Nobuo Nakagawa
    • Writers
      • Masayoshi Ônuki
      • Yoshihiro Ishikawa
      • Nanboku Tsuruya
    • Stars
      • Shigeru Amachi
      • Noriko Kitazawa
      • Katsuko Wakasugi
    • 20User reviews
    • 33Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Shigeru Amachi
    Shigeru Amachi
    • Iemon Tamiya
    Noriko Kitazawa
    • Sode
    Katsuko Wakasugi
    • Iwa
    • (as Kazuko Wakasugi)
    Shuntarô Emi
    • Naosuke
    Junko Ikeuchi
    • Ume Itô
    Jun Ôtomo
    • Takuetsu
    Hiroshi Hayashi
    • Kiemon Itô
    Shinjirô Asano
    • Samon Yotsuya
    Arata Shibata
    • Hikoemon Satô
    Kikuko Hanaoka
    • Maki
    Hiroshi Sugi
    • Jônen
    Yôzô Takamura
    • Usaburô Ozawa
    Nagamasa Yamada
    Hiroshi Izumida
    Kôji Hirose
    Hiroshi Tsukiji
    Midori Chikuma
    Ryûzaburô Nakamura
    • Yoshige Sato
    • Director
      • Nobuo Nakagawa
    • Writers
      • Masayoshi Ônuki
      • Yoshihiro Ishikawa
      • Nanboku Tsuruya
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    7rdoyle29

    An okay flick with amazing, hallucinatory visuals

    Shigeru Amachi wants to marry Katsuko Wakasugi, the daughter of prominent samurai Shinjirô Asano. Asano refuses the request, belittling Amachi who promptly murders him. Shuntarô Emi witnesses the murder and promises to help him cover it up, if he in turn helps him marry Wakasugi's sister. The two tell Wakasugi that her father was murdered by a notorious criminal and they will help her get revenge. Instead, they murder her sister's fiancé and Emi runs off with her.

    Months later, Amachi and Wakasugi are married and living in Edo. Amachi has fallen for Junko Ikeuchi, the daughter of a nobleman, and hatches a plan to rid himself of Wakasugi. He hires Jun Ôtomo to seduce her so that he can legally kill her, but the plan goes awry. Ôtomo ends up dead and Wakasugi is poisoned causing hideous facial deformities before she also dies. Amachi marries Ikeuchi, but the spirits of Wakasugi and Ôtomo haunt him leading him to ruin.

    This is probaby the best known adaptation of the kabuki play "Yotsuya Kaidan" (there are many). It's a fairly routine film from a story and characters perspective, but the film's vibrant colours and gory, hallucinatory visuals are really something.
    9freakus

    A lurid version of a classic tale.

    This classic japanese tale has been filmed many times. It's the story of a samurai's betrayal of his wife and the ultimate vengeance her spirit seeks. The spectre of her ghost haunting the mind of her husband is almost like seeing a japanese "The Shining".
    chaos-rampant

    The second half will be cherished by the Gothic horror aficionado

    Funny how things change. In 1949 Shintoho was producing prestige films like Akira Kurosawa's STRAY DOG. Ten years later they were producing scores of everything from lurid melodramas to nationalist war movies to cheap gangster flicks to kaidan period horror movies like this. Two years later, in 1961, they declared bankruptcy and closed shop, the first semi-big studio in postwar Japan to do so. Nobuo Nakagawa, along with Teruo Ishii who graduated from the film noir of the Chitai series into full blown sleaze and torture 10 years later, was one of those prolific studio filmmakers responsible for many of their kaidan pictures. His biggest call to fame is JIGOKU from the following year but this is an ample showcase of both the good and the bad of Shintoho film-making.

    Based on the classic story by Nanboku Tsuruya about a conniving lowly samurai who is haunted by the ghost of the wife he murdered, a lot of the drama is hackneyed, the characters simple caricatures of good and evil, innocent and scheming, the dialogues delivered on-the-nose. Iemon, the murderous samurai, is played and depicted as the worst villain possible. No grey areas here, nothing morally ambiguous, the movie is melodrama played to the back of the house. And yet, the first appearance of the ghost sent chills down my spine. Ringu and Ju On didn't invent the pale-faced ghost that creeps along the edge of the frame. It was there 50 years ago and in Kabuki theater before that.

    With the eye of a stylist, Nakagawa orchestrates a vision of hell on earth, ghosts rising from the ground or peering down from the ceiling, and it's all very stagey and theatrical probably to appeal to an audience already familiar with the story from Kabuki theater and as much creepy/atmospheric as it is graphic, certainly more graphic than American horror would dare to be for the next 10 years (we have blood gushing from wounds, facial deformities, and even an amputated limb), and while the whole is never as good as the parts, those parts should appeal to the horror fan who likes his lighting bright red and torquoise and his ghosts slow-moving and disfigured.
    7gbill-74877

    Entertaining, but no knockout blows

    The classic tale of 'The Ghost of Yotsuya' is entertaining enough, and zips along in its 76 minute run time, but it didn't deliver any knockout blows. The story is fairly black and white, with a ronin and his sidekick committing murder to get the women they want, but the depth of the blackness in their hearts is surprising, and makes it effective. Personally, I didn't find their supernatural comeuppance all that frightening, and felt that director Nobuo Nakagawa relied too much on the shock value of visuals, instead of creating real tension. The visuals are decent, but they're also dated, and we rarely fail to see what's coming. The performances were also generally over-done, though I understand my perspective is from another culture. Anyway, fans of the genre will probably enjoy this one.
    8Gravendal

    A good quality horror movie

    Fast summery of the movie, it's about a samurai who wants a woman as his wife, Doea the unthinkable and then does it again.

    It's a good plot and great acting in it. And the scenes are very good! Specially the final part and the scenes and how it's filmed are really nice. The last part of this movie really made the movie shine and it was really good stuff.

    It's a good revenge movie, the main villians you really hope to die as mercyless and themselves were. I liked this movie a lot, even though I was sitting after half the movie wondering were the ghost stuff were suppose to happen and man didn't i have to wait long.

    All in all, great horror movie.

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    • Release date
      • January 25, 1995 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
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    • Production company
      • Shintoho Film Distribution Committee
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      • 1h 16m(76 min)
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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