Satsuo Yamamotos The Bride from Hades (1968) is a haunting adaptation of Japans beloved ghost tale The Peony Lantern. When a lonely samurai falls in love with a mysterious woman, he discovers too late that she belongs to the spirit world. Mixing romance, tragedy, and eerie beauty, its a quintessential example of Japanese kaidan cinema.

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 Ugetsus 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.

Från IMDB:
On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing shes a ghost, he becomes infatuated by her.

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Filminfo:

Version: : Blu-Ray (import)

Språk : Japanese

EAN : 5060974681457

Label : Daiei Films

Distributor : Radiance Films

Inspelningsår : 1968

Regissör : Satsuo Yamamoto

imdb-rating : 7.1

Längd : 1h 29m

Cast : Kôjirô Hongô, Miyoko Akaza, Kô Nishimura