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2008

special programs / Nobuo Nakagawa: A Tribute

The Ghost of Yotsuya

Nakagawa Nobuo

Japan, 1959, 76'

The movie

A samurai is haunted by the ghost of the wife he had murdered in order to remarry. Her revenge from beyond the grave turns out to be implacable. A classic Japanese horror film, The Ghost of Yotsuya is based on a famous novel written in the eighteenth century by Tsuruya Nanboku.


producers :

Mitsugu Okura

cast :

Shigeru Amachi, Noriko Kitazawa, Shinjirô Asano

Crew :
  • Scriptwriter : Masayoshi Onuki, Yoshihiro Ishikawa
  • Music : Michiaki Watanabe
  • Cinematographer : Tadashi Nishimoto