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")
"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")