The Bride from Hades

Samurai Shinzaburo is visited by a beautiful courtesan. Captivated by her beauty, he agrees to marry her, but fails to realise she is a ghost.

Noble samurai Shinzaburo (Kojiro Hongo, Gamera) is visited one night by the beautiful courtesan Otsuyu (Miyoko Akaza, Lady Snowblood). She pleads with him to marry her and save her from life in a brothel. Instantly captivated by her beauty, Shinzaburo agrees and a cautious love affair develops, but in his infatuation, he fails to realise that Otsuyu is a ghost. His friends band together to drive off the spirit, but can the love-stricken Shinzaburo resist the haunting lure of this enchantress?


Working from a script by Ugetsu's Yoshikata Yoda, original Shinobi director Satsuo Yamamoto brings this classic Japanese ghost tale to the screen with breathtaking stylistic beauty. His visualisation of the alluring female ghost prefigures A Chinese Ghost Story and greatly inspired the J-horror movement.

Cast & Crew

Actors:

• Kojiro Hongo
• Miyoko Akaza
• Mayumi Ogawa
• Kô Nishimura
• Takashi Shimura
• Michiko Ôtsuka
• Atsumi Uda
• Takamaru Sasaki
• Kôichi Mizuhara
• Saburô Date
• Norio Shiozaki
• Kazuo Yamamoto
• Gen Kimura
• Shinobu Araki
• Shôzô Nanbu
• Kimiko Tachibana
• Teruko Ômi
• Yuko Mori

Director: Satsuo Yamamoto