The Ghost of Yotsuya

1959 [JAPANESE]

Action / Horror

18
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 73% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 2193 2.2K

samurai greed based on play or musical revenge betrayal murderer

Director

Nobuo Nakagawa Photo
Nobuo Nakagawa

Top cast

Kikuko Hanaoka Photo
Kikuko Hanaoka as Maki
Nagamasa Yamada Photo
Nagamasa Yamada as
Ryûzaburô Nakamura Photo
Ryûzaburô Nakamura as Yomoshichi Satô
Shinjirô Asano Photo
Shinjirô Asano as Samon Yotsuya
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704.47 MB
1280*520
Japanese 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 16 min
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1.28 GB
1888*768
Japanese 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 16 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by claudio_carvalho 8 / 10

The Ghost of Iwa

The ronin Iemon Tamiya (Shigeru Amachi) asks the father of Iwa (Kazuko Wakasugi) to marry his daughter, but the old man refuses, saying that he is worthless. Iemon kills him and his friend and together with the witness of the murder Naosuke (Shuntarô Emi), they lure Iwa and her sister Sode (Noriko Kitazawa) saying that the criminal Usaburô Ozawa (Yôzô Takamura) was the killer of their father. They head to Edo with Sode's fiancé Yomoshichi Satô (Haruhiko Nakagawa) seeking revenge. Along their journey, Iemon and Naosuke throw Yomoshichi off the waterfall cliffs in a river in order that Naosuke can marry Sode. Sometime later. Iemon and Iwa are married with a baby and Sode and Naosuke are living together without sex, but the sisters do not know that they are living in the same town. When Iemon knows the wealthy Ume Itô (Junko Ikeuchi), he plots with Naosuke to poison Iwa so that he can marry Ume. He also convinces the masseur Takuetsu (Jun Ôtomo) to seduce Iwa. Iemon kills them both and dump their bodies in the river. Iemon marries Ume but soon the ghost of Iwa haunts him."Tôkaidô Yotsuya kaidan", a.k.a. "The Ghost of Yotsuya", is a great horror movie specially if the viewer considers that this is a 1959 film. The make-up is impressive and the scenes after the death of Iwa are creepy. The former samurai Iemon Tamiya and his partner Naosuke are impressively evil and they deserve their fate. I believe this Japanese old tale is unknown for Westerns. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "O Fantasma de Yotsuya" ("The Ghost of Yotsuya")
Reviewed by Uriah43 7 / 10

An Evil Man's Deeds Coming Back to Haunt Him

This film essentially begins with a young samurai by the name of "Iemon Tamiya" (Shigeru Amachi) asking a more high-level samurai named "Samon Yotsuya" (Shinjiro Asano) to marry his daughter "Iwa Yotsuya). In response, Samon angrily refuses because he considers Iemon to be much too hedonistic and of low-moral character. Not surprisingly, this infuriates Iemon and, as if to prove Samon's point-he furiously draws his sword and kills the older man on the spot. Having witnessed the murder and wanting to capitalize on it, a cunning peasant named "Naosuke" (Shuntaro Emi) appears from the shadows and advises Iemon on exactly what to do next. Needless to say, Iemon listens quite intensely and in relatively little time he does, in fact, marry Iwa. Likewise, Naosuke also gets closer to realizing his ambition of marrying Iwa's sister "Sode" (Noriko Kitazawa) who was always out of reach for him due to his low status in life. However, what neither Iemon or Naosuke realize is that, eventually, their evil deeds will catch up to them--and when they do--they come in a most bizarre manner. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this was a good horror film which took a bit of time laying down the foundation of the story before really increasing in intensity later on. Admittedly, the costumes and makeup used pale in comparison to the CGI and special effects found in more modern films of today. No question about it. But even so, I thought that the overall movie was still quite entertaining, and I have rated it accordingly.
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