The Ghost of Kasane

Kaidan Kasane-ga-fuchi

Japan

1957

66 Min

Color

1.37:1

Japanese

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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CAST Katsuko Wakasugi, Takashi Wada, Noriko Kitazawa, Tetsurô Tanba, Kikuko Hanaoka, Sumiko Abe, Akira Nakamura, Unpei Yokoyama, Fumiko Miyata, Chisako Hara, Yôji Misaki, Shûji Kawabe, Kyôji Kokonoe, Yukio Sayama, Yoshihiko Nozaki

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, who kills his wife by mistake and then goes to the swamp and drowns himself. 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 the path of their escape lies by the Kasane swamp. —IMDb

Director

Nobuo Nakagawa

Nobuo Nakagawa (18 April 1905 — June 17, 1984) was a Japanese film director, most famous for the stylized, folk tale-influenced horror films he made in the 1950s and 1960s. Nakagawa began his film career as an apprentice to Masahiro Makino in 1934 and made his directorial debut with Itahachi Jima (1938). To Western audiences, his most famous film is Jigoku (1960), which he also co-wrote. The film was released on DVD by the Criterion Collection in 2006. His last film was 1982’s Kaiidan: Ikiteiru Koheiji. —Wikipedia