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The Ghost of Yotsuya (東海道四谷怪談, Tōkaidō Yotsuya Kaidan) is a 1959 Japanese supernatural horror film directed by Nobuo Nakagawa. The film is based on the kabuki play Yotsuya Kaidan. [1] It was among the many horror films that Nakagawa adapted for Shintoho in the late 1950s and was one of the many adaptations of the play.
The Shintoho studio produced Nobuo Nakagawa's 1959 Ghost of Yotsuya (Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan), [11] which is often considered by critics to be the finest screen adaptation of the story. Toho produced a version of Ghost of Yotsuya in 1965 directed by Shirō Toyoda and starring Tatsuya Nakadai that was released as Illusion of Blood abroad. [ 12 ]
He gained fame for the nihilistic mood of his character in Akatsuki no hijōsen and starred in Nobuo Nakagawa's version of Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan (1959). [1] On television, he played the hardboiled detective in Hijō no raisensu and Kogoro Akechi in a long-running series of TV specials. [1] On stage he was best known for playing Hishakaku in ...
It was at Shintoho after the war that he became known for his cinematic adaptations of Japanese kaidan, especially his masterful version of Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan in 1959. To Western audiences, his most famous film is Jigoku (1960), which he also co-wrote. The film was released on DVD by the Criterion Collection in 2006.
This is a list of horror films released in the 1950s.At the beginning of the 1950s, horror films were described by Kim Newman as being "out of fashion". [1] Among the most influential horror films of the 1950s was The Thing From Another World, with Newman stating that countless science fiction horror films of the 1950s would follow in its style, while a film made just the year before, The Man ...
Shintoho Co. Ltd. (新東宝株式会社, Shintōhō kabushiki kaisha, or New Tōhō Company) was a Japanese movie studio.It was one of the big six film studios (which also included Daiei, Nikkatsu, Shochiku, Toei Company, and Toho) during the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.
Masaki Kobayashi was a Japanese film director, screenwriter and producer who has directed twenty films in a career spanning 33 years. He is best known for The Human Condition Trilogy, the Academy Award–nominated horror film Kwaidan and the jidaigeki films Harakiri and Samurai Rebellion.
AKA Onna ga kaidan o agaru toki Storm Over the Pacific AKA Hawai Middouei daikaikusen: Taiheiyo no arashi / Hawaii-Midway Battle of the Sea and Sky: Storm in the Pacific Ocean (running 118 minutes); Later released in 1961 in the United States in a dubbed and abridged, 98-minute version produced by Hugo Grimaldi under the title I Bombed Pearl Harbor