Kaidan Kasane Ga Fuchi - An
excellent example of traditional Japanese moral sentiment wrapped in a
supernatural ghost tale, set in the mid-Edo Era (1773) in the small town of
Hanyu in Shimosa Province.
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
Samurai, and then tricks the Samurai into killing his own wife before leading
him into the swamp where he drowns.
20 years later, the masseur's daughter unknowingly falls in
love with the Samurai's son who has been brought up to be a servant. After she
is horribly disfigured in an accident, he plots to run away with another woman,
but it turns out her dead father isn't so hot on that idea.
DIRECTED BY: NAKAGAWA NOBUO
STARRING: WAKASUGI KAZUKO, TAMBA TETSURO
1957 - JAPANESE with OPTIONAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES - B&W -
FULLSCREEN - 66 MINUTES
