THE TALE OF OIWA’S GHOST

“The atmosphere feels haunted from the very start. The dense fog never lets up, drifting like a living thing; the moon hangs heavy above murky, swampy landscapes. Even before a ghost appears, the world feels cursed.” - Marta McFly, Letterboxd

The Japanese ghost film at its most lavish and chilling! Crime film specialist Tai Kato (I, THE EXECUTIONER) brings the famous Ghost Story of Yotsuya to the screen as a gritty tale of murder and greed. When the daughter of an elite family takes a shine to poor samurai Iemon (Tomisaburo Wakayama, LONE WOLF AND CUB), he sees an opportunity to climb the social ladder. He just needs to rid himself of his only obstacle: his loving wife Oiwa. He poisons her and dumps her corpse in a nearby swamp, but she returns as a horribly disfigured ghost to haunt Iemon on his wedding night.