The Ghost of Yotsuya

The Ghost of Yotsuya
Directed byNobuo Nakagawa[1]
Screenplay by
  • Masayoshi Ônuki
  • Yoshihiro Ishikawa[1]
Based onYotsuya Kaidan
by Nanboku Tsuruya
Produced byMitsugu Okura[1]
StarringShigeru Amachi
CinematographyTadashi Nishimoto[1]
Music byChumei Watanabe
Production
company
Release date
  • 11 July 1959 (1959-07-11) (Japan)
Running time
76 minutes[1]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

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] It was among the many horror films that Nakagawa adapted for Shintoho in the late 1950s and was one of the many adaptations of the play.

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Galbraith IV 1996, p. 182.