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The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen

Original title
Kaibyô nazo no shamisen
Year
Running time
73 min.
Country
Japan Japan
Director
Screenwriter
Cast
Cinematography
Producer
Genre
Horror | Supernatural. Ghosts. Yokais. J-Horror. Feudal Japan
Movie Groups
Ghost Cat
Synopsis
Sumiko Suzuki plays Mitsue, the possessive onna-kabuki actress betrothed to apprentice shamisen player Seijiro. One day Okiyo, a beautiful young girl of samurai class, is led to Seijiro’s house by his lost cat Kuro, and becomes besotted with him. Dark jealous passions are invoked in Mitsue, which are intensified when Seijiro gives Okiyo his precious shamisen. The cat is the first to suffer at the end of Mitsue’s hairpin, but returns from the grave to assist Okiyo’s younger sister Onui avenge her sister’s murder. Director Kiyohiko Ushihara employs an arsenal of dark double exposures, slow motion sequences and specially-developed lenses to convey this dark, uncanny tale.
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