The camera zips behind a tree as Iemon jumps out from concealment and pleads his case with Samo. Samo and his companion stroll down a path as the camera tracks them. Epic Tracking Shot: The first scene, minus the introductory kabuki bit, runs four minutes without a cut.Catapult Nightmare: How Yomoshichi is revealed to be alive, as he has a nightmare of Oiwa's ghost.Broken Bird: Oiwa, left broken and despairing in a miserable marriage to Iemon, but still doing stuff like fanning him as they lay down to sleep at night.First it more or less melts half her face off, her skin erupting into a ghastly sheet of boils, her hair falling out in chunks. Body Horror: The poison that Iemon gives Oiwa doesn't just kill her, oh no.As You Know: Iemon introduces himself to the audience by kneeling in front of Samo and saying "I, Iemon Tamiya, come to you to ask again for the hand of your daughter Iwa in marriage," thus identifying three characters in one sentence.An Arm and a Leg: Before finishing off Takuetsu, Iemon slices his whole arm off with one slash of the sword.Then he sees Ghost Takuetsu approaching and runs him through with his sword, only to find that he has really killed his father-in-law Ito. He stabs her with his sword, only to find that he has really killed his new wife Ume. Accidental Murder: Iemon sees Ghost Oiwa on the bed mat looking all gross.Iemon and his once-again partner in crime Naosuke see a way out of their dead-end lives-but there remains the inconvenient presence of Iemon's wife. When Iemon more or less accidentally prevents the kidnapping of a lovely young noblewoman named Ume, he becomes a favorite of Ume's noble father, Ito. Oiwa remains the dutiful wife, but she's well past the Despair Event Horizon. Iemon has fathered a child with Oiwa but has grown tired of her. Iemon and Naosuke each claim a sister for their own and go their separate ways.Ĭut forward a couple of years. However, once they are safely away from the sisters they murder Yomoshichi and pin that crime on Usaburo as well. Iemon and Naosuke accuse a bandit named Usaburo of the murders and set off after him along with Yomoshichi. Samo's traveling companion was the father of a nice young man named Yomoshichi, himself a samurai, and Osode's fiance. It turns out that Naosuke isn't all that broken up by the death of his master, himself wanting Samo's other daughter, Osode. He does not, hoewever, kill Samo's servant Naosuke. But when Samo calls Iemon a fool, Iemon freaks out and kills him, and his traveling companion. Samo has accurately sized up Iemon as a "libertine" and basically a dirtbag, and so he scornfully refuses. Iemon Tamiya, a ronin samurai, approaches Samo Yotsuya for the hand of Samo's daughter, Oiwa. It is based on the 1825 kabuki play Yotsuya Kaidan, which became hugely famous in Japan and is probably the Trope Maker for Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl. The Ghost of Yotsuya ( Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan, "Ghost Story of Yotsuya in Tokaido") is a 1959 horror film from Japan directed by Nobuo Nakagawa.
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