The Ghosts of Yotsuya (1956)
四谷怪談
Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the kabuki classic: Toukaidou Yotsuya Kaidan (1826) written by Tsuruya Nanboku and is one of the most famous ghost stories throughout Japan.
- Date of release
- 1956-07-12
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Genres
- Horror
- Director
- Masaki Mōri
Casting
- Tomisaburō Wakayama — Iemon
- Akemi Tsukushi — Oume
- Chieko Sōma — Oiwa
- Haruo Tanaka — Naosuke
- Shigeru Ogura — Takuetsu
- Unpei Yokoyama
- Chōko Iida — Omaki
- Kō Mihashi — Ito Kihei
- Masao Takamatsu — Samon
- Michiko Ozawa — Osode
- Kikuko Hanaoka — Oyumi
- Hiroshi Izumida
Interesting facts
Yotsuya Kaidan is a 1956 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masaki Mori. It is a Japanese horror film based on the Japanese ghost story (kaidan) about Oiwa and Tamiya Iemon.
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