Cast: Akira Nakamura

Synopsis A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane swamp. However, the ghost of the masseur returns to haunt the...

6.3

40 votes

6.3

40 votes

A Wicked Woman (Poisonous Woman Takahashi O-Den)

1958 · Movie · 74 min. · Japan

Drama Romance Crime 19th Century Based on True Stories

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Katsuko Wakasugi · Jûzaburô Akechi · Tetsurô Tanba · Akira Nakamura

Synopsis In 1870's Tokyo, Den steals to support the daughter of her first marriage and her consumptive second husband. She falls in love with a young policeman, but is coerced into becoming the mistress of and procurer for a vice boss....

6.3

26 votes

6.3

26 votes

Jigoku

1960 · Movie · 101 min. · Japan

Horror Ghosts Supernatural Surrealism

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Shigeru Amachi · Utako Mitsuya · Yoichi Numata · Hiroshi Hayashi

Synopsis A graduate-school student has a friend who is pure evil. His friend and he are out driving one night when they hit a drunkard and the friend leaves the accident victim to die. The student's life then goes downhill from...

6.0

198 votes

6.0

198 votes

Lady Vampire

1959 · Movie · 78 min. · Japan

Horror Vampires

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Shigeru Amachi · Takashi Wada · Junko Ikeuchi · Akira Nakamura

5.4

31 votes

5.4

31 votes

Invitation to Happiness

1947 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan

Drama

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Hideko Takamine · Denjirô Ôkôchi · Takako Irie · Seizaburô Kawazu

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He Had to Die

1956 · Movie · 101 min. · Japan

Drama Horror

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Kanjuro Arashi · Shôji Nakayama · Joji Oka · Minoru Takada

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The Ghost Cat of Otama Pond

1960 · Movie · 75 min. · Japan

Horror

Direction Yoshihiro Ishikawa

Cast Shôzaburo Date · Hiroshi Hayashi · Noriko Kitazawa · Namiji Matsuura

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Ms. Hanako

1943 · Movie · 71 min. · Japan

Musical Comedy

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Yukiko Todoroki · Hideko Takamine · Hisako Yamane · Reisaburo Yamamoto

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Dare ka yume naki: Zenpen

1947 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan

Drama

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Susumu Fujita · Akira Nakamura · Yataro Kurokawa · Chizuko Nogami

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The Bloody Sword of the 99th Virgin

1959 · Movie · 82 min. · Japan

Drama Horror Japanese Horror

Direction Morihei Magatani

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Seiji Hara · Kazuo Harada · Rei Ishikawa

Synopsis The most controversial film ever produced by Shintoho, Magatani Morihei’s horror thriller Bloody Sword Of The 99th Virgin (Kyujukyu-honme no Kimusume) is set in the mountains of Iwate Prefecture - a remote area that might be described as the Ozarks...

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