The Blood of Rebirth
2009·Japan·83 min.
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The film is based on a a medieval Japanese legend of a masseur named Oguri who frees a princess from the clutches of an evil lord. For his crime the lord poisons and kills Oguri, but the masseur is sent back from the land of the dead as a hungry ghost from Buddhist mythology. Back in the land of the living he is reunited with the freed princess, but he also must face his murderer, the evil lord, again
DirectorToshiaki Toyoda
MusicTwin Tail
CinematographyToyotarô Shigemori
CastTatsuya Nakamura·Mayû Kusakari·Kiyohiko Shibukawa·Hirofumi Arai·Itsuji Itao·Mame Yamada·Masao Kusakari·Takuji Suzuki
Original titleYomigaeri no chi