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- DirectorMorihei MagataniStarsYôko MiharaBunta SugawaraReiko SetoYumi Aoyama is now a girl diver in shallow waters to cut oysters and other shellfish delicacies, and eventually pearls, from the shallow underwater rocks, like so many poor girls of her village. She comes from a rich family, but the Aoyama's treasure has been buried in a great earthquake when she was a little girl, and with the treasure, her lost sister. Yumi tells Kyouko, a policewoman friend, that she has seen the ghost of her dead sister, telling her how to find the entrance to a cave where their family's treasure is. As Kyouko begins an investigation, she finds out that the ghost story is part of a conspiracy by a criminal gang, who is out looking for an easy way to access the enormous treasure. Girl divers' friendship and blood relations come to a halt when ghosts vanish and truth is exposed - culminating in some hand to hand fighting by the seashore. (Semi-documentary footage of actual Ama women diving and exploring underwater tunnels and caves.)
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKô ShibasakiHideaki ItôEbizô IchikawaFiction begins to bleed into reality for actors (Ebizo Ichikawa, Ko Shibasaki, Hideaki Ito) as they rehearse a stage production of a classic Japanese ghost story.
- DirectorKiyohiko UshiharaStarsTokusaburô ArashiShinpachirô AsakaYaeko AsanoIn this pre-war classic, a jealous stage actress named Mitsue murders a cat belonging to a young woman who is in love with the same man as Mitsue. The spirit of the cat returns as a vengeful ghost.
- DirectorTokuzô TanakaStarsKôjirô HongôNaomi KobayashiMitsuyo KameiA young woman turns to the supernatural to wreak revenge on an murderous warlord.
- DirectorYoshihiro IshikawaStarsShôzaburô DateNamiji MatsuuraNoriko KitazawaTwo lovers lost in the mountains find themselves in a mysterious forest pond, as if some kind of force doesn't want to let them go.
- DirectorYoshihiro IshikawaStarsRyôhei UchidaKôtarô SatomiKyoko MikageA Vassal kills his lord and his wife with her cat commit suicide to avoid marrying him. Will they return and try to get revenge?
- DirectorKenji MisumiStarsShintarô KatsuChieko MurataMieko Kondô
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsRentarô MikuniMichiyo AratamaMisako WatanabeA collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.
- DirectorTeruo IshiiStarsMeiko KajiHoki TokudaMakoto SatôThe head of a yakuza gang is being trailed by a mysterious, vengeful blind woman.
- DirectorHideo NakataStarsKikunosuke OnoeHitomi KurokiMao InoueJapan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river. According to legend, all who drown in the river will never surface again. 20 Years later, Shinkichi, the handsome son of Shinzaemon, coincidentally meets Toyoshiga, the daughter of Soetsu. They fall in love. It is a doomed love, as the spirit of Soetsu is far from dead.
- DirectorTokuzô TanakaStarsShiho FujimuraAkira IshihamaMachiko HasegawaThe lives of a master sculptor and his young apprentice are changed forever when they meet an evil witch during a snow storm.
- DirectorBin KatôStarsKôichi AiharaToshio ChibaJun Fujikawa
- DirectorBin KatôStarsMichiyo AiKôtarô BandôTakako Irie
- DirectorBin KatôStarsTakako IrieYoshitaro SadatoMichiko Ai
- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsFumihiko FujimaJunko MiyashitaShôji IshibashiThe actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro. To get her, he would even kill Takuro. In course of a fight on a boat on the water, Koheiji himself falls into the water and drowns. But he keeps returning and returning...
- DirectorKunio WatanabeStarsUreo EgawaNijiko KiyokawaSôji KiyokawaTanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has some weird history. It is believed that one game played on the board requires one death.
- DirectorKazuo HaseStarsMasumi HarukawaNobuo KanekoSaeda KawaguchiA Samurai kills a Blind Man who tells him to "Repay his debts." Because of the Samurai's actions his entire family is to bear a terrible curse.
- DirectorMasaru TsushimaStarsGitan OhtsuruYûna NatsuoJun SuzukiWife in former life plagues husband as ghost in the present.
- DirectorSatsuo YamamotoStarsKôjirô HongôMiyoko AkazaMayumi OgawaOn the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes infatuated by her.
- DirectorMasaki MôriStarsNoriko KitazawaShôzaburô DateReiko Seto
- DirectorKeisuke KinoshitaStarsKinuyo TanakaKen UeharaHisako YamaneIemon Tamiya is an impoverished master-less samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband.
- DirectorShirô ToyodaStarsTatsuya NakadaiMariko OkadaJunko IkeuchiA samurai warrior is haunted by the spirit of his first wife.
- DirectorKenji MisumiStarsKazuo HasegawaYasuko NakadaYôko UrajiKenji MISUMI's YOTSUYA KWAIDAN is presumed to be the first colored film version of the famous play. Deviating heavily from the original source, Fuji YAHIRO depicts cold blooded protagonist Iemon as a tragic hero. The "righteous revenge" for his ruthlessly murdered wife leads to the redemption of her evil spirit. The visionary finale is without a question the apex of this underrated masterpiece.
- DirectorMasaki MôriStarsTomisaburô WakayamaAkemi TsukushiChieko SômaOiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the kabuki classic: Toukaidou Yotsuya Kaidan (1826) written by Tsuruya Nanboku and is one of the most famous ghost stories throughout Japan.
- DirectorKazuo MoriStarsKei SatôYoshihiko AoyamaAkiji Kobayashi
- DirectorJirô YoshinoStarsShirôgorô Sawamura
- DirectorNorio YamagamiStarsKimiko HaraKan IshiiKôichi Kuzuki
- DirectorKinya OgawaStarsReiko AkikawaMiki HayashiSetsu Shimizu
- DirectorHajime SatôStarsKô NishimuraMasumi HarukawaKeiko YumiA man, Chonin Mitake, dies crazy after long agony, and his dead body is cremated. His widow Yoshi, investigating on the past of her husband, goes to the mansion where he had lived, a building Leftly nicknamed "Satan's Pit" (a suggestive statue of Satan is situated in the atrium of the mansion) managed by a hunchbacked caretaker. Soon some visitors reach the house. the hunchbacked keeper warns...
- DirectorTsuneo KobayashiStarsKô NishimuraSanae NakaharaMasao MishimaAfter a rich man drowns, his scheming relatives gather in his old house to get what is coming to them.
- DirectorGorô KadonoStarsJûzaburô AkechiShigeru AmachiHiroshi HayashiA samurai rescues a mischievous tanuki from hunters and sets it free. When the samurai's wastrel son hatches a plot to kill his father for his fortune, the magical tanuki is determined to protect its rescuer.
- DirectorGorô KadonoStarsAkira NakamuraKatsuko WakasugiAsao MatsumotoAfter apprenticing himself to a painter, a man decides that the painter's knowledge isn't enough--he wants his wife too. But as it turns out, the painter's death doesn't keep him from exacting revenge.
- DirectorRyôhei AraiStarsTakako IrieMichiko AiYoshitaro Sadato
- DirectorRyôhei AraiStarsShinobu ArakiKôtarô BandôTakaji FukuiA woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat begins haunting the conspirators.
- DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsKôichi SatôSaki TakaokaKeiko OginomeWhen Tamiya Iyemon joins the Asano Clan, he brings with him a legacy of death. Aside from Horibe Yasubei, he is the only one with fighting experience and could help the group carrying out their long-awaited vendetta against Lord Kira.
- DirectorKimiyoshi YasudaStarsSaburô DateKenjirô IshiyamaTeruo IshiyamaA blind masseur sleeps with the wife of a samurai, who catches them in the act and kills them. The murdered couple return as vengeful ghosts. This film is a remake of a 1957 film. It was the final picture made by Daiei Studios.
- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsYukiko KuwaharaYukie KagawaSeizaburô KawazuAn old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. Since the man died in debt, his wife and daughter are indentured servants and are forced to work in the landlord's factory.
- DirectorKimiyoshi YasudaStarsJun FujimakiMiwa TakadaMasaru HiraizumiThe local yôkai (Japanese spirits) interfere to avenge a murder and thwart the plans of corrupt officials.
- DirectorKeisuke KinoshitaStarsKinuyo TanakaKen UeharaHisako YamaneIn this second part to The Yotsuda Phantom, Iemon's apparent success is minimized by his own feelings of guilt, the quickly mounting evidence, and Naosuke's constant hounding.