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The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen

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Original title

Kaibyô nazo no shamisen

Year

1938

Running time

73 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Kiyohiko Ushihara

Screenwriter

Kenji Hata. Story: Kenji Hata

Cast

Cinematography

Takenori Takahashi (B&W)

Producer

Shinkô Kinema

Genre

Horror | Supernatural. Ghosts. Yokais. J-Horror. Feudal Japan

Movie Groups

Ghost Cat

Synopsis

Sumiko Suzuki plays Mitsue, the possessive onna-kabuki actress betrothed to apprentice shamisen player Seijiro. One day Okiyo, a beautiful young girl of samurai class, is led to Seijiro’s house by his lost cat Kuro, and becomes besotted with him. Dark jealous passions are invoked in Mitsue, which are intensified when Seijiro gives Okiyo his precious shamisen. The cat is the first to suffer at the end of Mitsue’s hairpin, but returns from the grave to assist Okiyo’s younger sister Onui avenge her sister’s murder. Director Kiyohiko Ushihara employs an arsenal of dark double exposures, slow motion sequences and specially-developed lenses to convey this dark, uncanny tale.

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