A doctor's wife, Yoriko, suffers from a weak constitution. To improve her health with a change of environment, they return to her birthplace of Kyushu and move into an old house. However, the wife is attacked by a ghastly old woman and around the house dreadful curses emerge. "Why is the withered witch determined to get her hands around Yoriko's young neck? The second act takes us back several hundred years for the answer. It's a tragic tale of a vicious lord who takes the life of his young go teacher and rapes his blind mother. In shame, she plunges a knife into her belly and entrusts her kitty kat with exacting revenge right down the lord's family line (servants included). Nakagawa makes the highly effective choice to film the present-day bookend scenes in black and white and the second act in gorgeous color, including a surprising supply of sang and violent mayhem, considering the year the film was made." Jason Gray
Production: Shintoho
World Sales: Kokusai Hoei
Screenplay: Ishikawa Yoshihiro, Fujishima Jiro, nach dem Roman von Tachibana Soto'o
Cinematographer: Nishimoto Tadashi
Art Direction: Kurosawa Haruyasu
Composer: Watanabe Michiaki
Sound: Kataoka Itaru
Light: Sekigawa Jiro
Editor: Goto Toshio
Cast: Hosokawa Toshio, Ejima Yuriko, Satsuki Fujie, Shibata Shin, Nakamura Ryuzaburo, Kitazawa Noriko
Format/screen ratio: 35mm, 1:2.35, Color and b/w
Running time: 69 minutes, 24 frames/sec.
Language: Japanese
Foto: ©Kokusai Hoei
