Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan
| Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan | |
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| Directed by | Nobuo Nakagawa |
| Produced by | Mitsugu Okura |
| Written by |
Masayoshi Ônuki (screenplay) Yoshihiro Ishikawa (screenplay) Nanboku Tsuruya (play) |
| Starring | Shigeru Amachi |
| Music by | Michiaki Watanabe |
| Cinematography | Tadashi Nishimoto |
| Distributed by | Shintoho |
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Running time | 76 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan (東海道四谷怪談) is a 1959 Japanese horror film, directed by Nobuo Nakagawa and based on the 19th century Japanese kabuki play by Nanboku Tsuruya titled Yotsuya Kaidan.[1]
Plot
Ruthless samurai Iemon Tamiya wants to marry Iwa and when her father refuses, Iemon kills him and disposes of the body with assistance of Naosuke. Later, tiring of his wife and wishing to marry the heiress Ume Itō, Iemon plots to murder his wife by mixing a poison into her tea and also killing her admirer Takuetsu. Her health deteriorates into a slow agonizing death. The ghosts of Iwa and Takuetsu appear and take vengeance on Iemon and his new wife.
Cast
- Shigeru Amachi as Iemon Tamiya
- Katsuko Wakasugi as Iwa
- Shuntarō Emi as Naosuke
- Ryūzaburō Nakamura as Yomoshichi
- Noriko Kitazawa as Sode
- Junko Ikeuchi as Ume Itō
- Kikuko Hanaoka as Maki
- Hiroshi Hayashi as Kihē Itō
- Jun Ōtomo as Takuetsu
- Shinjirō Asano as Samo
References
- ↑ "Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan (1959)". TCM. Retrieved 2013-09-22. External link in
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External links
- Tokaido Yatsuya kaidan at the Internet Movie Database
- Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan at the TCM Movie Database
- 東海道四谷怪談 at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)
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