The Bride from Hades

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The Bride from Hades

7.1 | 1h29m | en | Horror

On 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.

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7.1 | 1h29m | en | Horror | More Info

Released: June. 15,1968 | Released Producted By: Daiei Film , Country: Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

Synopsis

On 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.

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Cast

Miyoko Akaza , Kōjirō Hongō , Kō Nishimura

Director

Yoshinobu Nishioka

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Cast

Miyoko Akaza

as Otsuyu

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Kōjirō Hongō

as Hagiwara Shinzaburou

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Kō Nishimura

as Banzou

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Reviews

Anthony Dolphin (santasprees) The seduction of death itself (in the form of an alluring ghost) is familiar enough territory in Japanese ghost stories (Ghost Story Of Yotsuya, Kuroneko, etc), the twist here being Communist director Yamamoto's playful depiction of the villagers' efforts to thwart the ghost's advances towards their middle class school teacher, Shinzaburou.As with most Yamamoto films, the emphasis here is on the ensemble playing of the cast rather than any leads. That said, the roles of Banzou and his wife do seem rather overplayed, probably betraying their origin as kabuki grotesques.Handsomely shot (Chishi Makiura) and scored (Sei Ikeno) to evoke a vivid sense of the dark, sticky nights of Obon, this is a curious and thoughtful horror film that somehow manages to give Bhuddism, capitalism and family a good kicking within the restrictions of the genre and the source material.