CinemaOSMovie · 1962 · 1h 13m

Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern

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One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy merchant named Matasaburo, who had run away from home with a woman he was in love with and had been living here. But this funeral was actually a kyogen (a farce) orchestrated by a gardener named Yunosuke, who had planted it without telling his wife, Okinu, in order to bilk his parents out of their money. Matasaburo believed Yunosuke, who said he would dig him up right away, and was buried in the ground. ......

Directed byKatsuhiko Tasaka

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 13m
Language
JA
Released
June 24, 1962
Studios
Daiei Film

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Ganjirō Nakamura II

Ganjirō Nakamura II

Katsuhiko Kobayashi

Katsuhiko Kobayashi

Reiko Fujiwara

Reiko Fujiwara

Chizuko Takamori

Yukio Horikita

Yukio Horikita

Hiroshi Nawa

Hiroshi Nawa

Shintarō Nanjō

Fumihiko Yokoyama

Kimiko Tachibana

Kimiko Tachibana

Keiko Koyanagi

Keiko Koyanagi

Creative team
Directed by
Katsuhiko Tasaka
Written by
Minoru Inuzuka

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