Ghost of the Pearl Divers

The boozy mercenary of the title, based on the actual historical figure of Naoyuki Ban (1567-1615),...

A samurai kills a blind man who tells him to repay his debts. Because of the samurai's actions his e...

Osen, a dance teacher who hates men, refuses to become the concubine of a rich merchant, but falls i...

Classic kaidan ghost story set in the Edo period

Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear.

A master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special tree fo...

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

A ghost story about a woman who dies a violent death and appears to the man she loves as a vengeful...

In Numada, Jyoshu, Seijun's mistress dies a horrible death at the hands of a gang of vicious vassals...

The video is a compilation of six short stories based on Japanese folklore legends. Each story is ap...

This film is about the curse of a jealous woman destroying the lovers on the run.

A quintessential example of the period "ghost cat" (bakeneko or kaibyo) movie, this was one of at le...

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a...

A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat...

Okoyo, the mistress of Lord Arima, fears that she is being replaced by a younger woman named Otaki....

The Lord of Okazaki is killed by his brother-in-law. Although the Lord's widow bears a child, she is...

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

A tryst between the young warrior Hagiwara Shinzaburo and beautiful Otsuyu is discovered, and the sh...

Kusuo Abe stars in this kaidan.

A power struggle in the fief of Okazaki causes the death of Namiji, a nobleman's daughter. As her fi...