The Haunted Castle (1969)

Director: Tokuzô Tanaka

"Hiroku kaibyoden" opens in 1729. Lord Tangonokami Nabeshime (Koichi Uenoyama) of Saga Prefecture takes a fancy to a blind monk's sister, Sayo (Mitsuya Kamei). Monk Matashichiro (Akihisa Toda) refuses to bow to Lord Nabeshime's lecherous interest in Sayo. The lord and chamberlain ultimately kill the monk during their regular game of Go. Sayo, ordered to leave Saga the next morning, commits suicide by cutting open her stomach, asking the cat Tama to lap her blood as she dies so that the cat can gain supernatural powers and curse the castle…

It's based on a legendary "ghost cat" story from Japan.A lord's family and house are haunted by a murderous ghost cat that turns into a female vampire.
It's the basic "revenge from beyond the grave" tale. It's very moody, and makes excellent use of color, shadow, startling imagery (including a scene where a cat laps up the blood of a woman who has committed suicide), and especially sound.

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In 1590, Saga, Nabeshima Naoshige revolted againt his lord the Ryuuzouji and ruled Saga district. It is called 'Nabeshima soudou (Nabeshima disturbance)'. After then, many mysterious accidents happened often around the Nabeshimas.



In 1853, Segawa Jokou 3rd wrote the kabuki-play "Hana Saga neko mata zoushi (the fine city of Saga ghost cat story)" based on this case. He added the episode of ghost cat. There are many adaptations of this story, among them "Nabeshima kaibyoden" / "Ghost Cat of Nabeshima" (1949), "Kaidan saga yashiki" / "Ghost of Saga Mansion" (1953) and others.



Directed by Tanaka Tokuzo , who began his film career as assistant director under Kurosawa Akira on "Rashomon" and Mizoguchi Kenji on "Ugetsu Monogatari", went on to direct "Oe-yama Shuten-dôji" ("Demon of Mt. Oe"), three of the original 60s Zatoichi films (including "Shin Zatoichi Monogatari"), the first and tenth entries in the Nemuri Kyoshiro series, numerous yakuza and ninja films, and the memorable adaptation of the Snow Woman legend "Kaidan yuki jorou" . He also directed "Daisatsujin Orochi" (The Betrayal) with Ichikawa Raizo, one of the greatest jidaigeki films ever made.



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