The Temptress and the Monk

Ghost Cat of Nabeshima

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommen

1949

Ghost of Saga Mansion

A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat begins haunting the conspirators. This is Takako

1953

The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing

A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by the vengeful murder victim.

1954

A Samurai's Love

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.

1954

Returning Spirit

A tryst between the young warrior Hagiwara Shinzaburo and beautiful Otsuyu is discovered, and the shamed Otsuyu commits suicide with her maid. Their g

1955

Appeal on the Cross

Kusuo Abe stars in this kaidan.

1956

The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations

A power struggle in the fief of Okazaki causes the death of Namiji, a nobleman's daughter. As her fiancé seeks revenge, he finds Namiji's cat helping

1956

Ghost-Cat of Yonaki Swamp

A remake of Kaidan Saga yashiki (1953).

1957

The Ghost-Cat Cursed Wall

When a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her and her cat and has their bodies immured in a wall. S

1958

White Snake Woman

While transporting a bride-to-be in a closed carriage (kago) while during a thunderstorm, a group of servants and onlookers suddenly come upon an appa

1958

Obsessive Snake

Utaji heard that her ex-lover Seijirou would get married to Ochiyo a daughter of Ise-ya. She murdered Ochiyo and took over the Ise-ya's shop with Hiko

1958

Blue Snake Bath

Last part of the Snake Woman trilogy.

1959

Feline Spirit

Go master Matashichiro Ryuzoji, during the game, was killed in anger by the Lord of the Nabeshima clan, Hizen-no-kami. The mother of the murdered Mata

1958

The Mother Tree

A painter leaves his family to paint the homes of his rich clients. A lonely, ruthless samurai falls in love with the painter's wife and rapes her. He

1958

Summer of Demon

A former retainer to a noble family kills his wife's father when he tries to expose his past crimes. When he begins an affair with the daughter of ano

1981

Peony Lantern Ghost Story

Version of Botan Dōrō.

2007

White Fan

Horror film directed by Toshikazu Kôno.

1956

The Living Koheiji

The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro; to get her, he would even kill Takuro.

1957

The Swamp

A man’s wife dies in a swamp. Her ghost returns to haunt him.

1956

Lust of the White Serpent

A work with the motif of a legend that remains in the mountain villages of Shinshu and Hida. A white snake helped by a young man transfers to a girl's

1960