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Utagawa Kuniyoshi's portrait of Oiwa.. Yotsuya Kaidan (四谷怪談), the story of Oiwa and Tamiya Iemon, [a] is a tale of betrayal, murder and ghostly revenge.Arguably the most famous Japanese ghost story of all time, it has been adapted for film over 30 times and continues to be an influence on Japanese horror today.
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 ]
Okiku, Oiwa, and the lovesick Otsuyu together make up the San O-Yūrei (三大幽霊, "three great Yūrei") of Japanese culture. These are yūrei whose stories have been passed down and retold throughout the centuries, and whose characteristics along with their circumstances and fates have formed a large part of Japanese art and society.
Yotsuya Kaidan (四谷怪談, Yotsuya Kaidan) is a 1956 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masaki Mori. [1] It is a Japanese horror film based on the Japanese ghost story about Oiwa and Tamiya Iemon.
The Ghost of Yotsuya may refer to: The Ghost of Yotsuya (1959 Shintoho film) The Ghost of Yotsuya (1959 Daiei film) This page was last edited on 2 ...
Crest of Betrayal, known in Japan as Chūshingura Gaiden: Yotsuya Kaidan (Japanese: 忠臣蔵外伝 四谷怪談, "The Treasury of Loyal Retainers Side Story: Yotsuya Ghost Story"), is a 1994 Japanese film directed by Kinji Fukasaku.
Upon realizing this Oiwa takes her own life and that of her baby. After her death she comes back to haunt Iemon and his new wife, becoming an onryō. [19] Banchō Sarayashiki is another Japanese ghost story that has been retold many ways. In this story Okiku, a beautiful maid, is the target of desire for the samurai whose house she works at ...
One Hundred Ghost Stories (Japanese: 百物語, romanized: Hyaku monogatari) is a series of ukiyo-e woodblock prints made by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) in the Yūrei-zu genre circa 1830. He created this series around the same time he was creating his most famous works, the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series.