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The Bride from Hades
On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes infatuated by her.
| Release : | 1968 |
| Rating : | 7.2 |
| Studio : | Daiei Film, |
| Crew : | Production Design, Cinematography, |
| Cast : | Miyoko Akaza Kōjirō Hongō Kō Nishimura Mayumi Ogawa Takashi Shimura |
| Genre : | Horror |
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Surprisingly incoherent and boring
The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
The seduction of death itself (in the form of an alluring ghost) is familiar enough territory in Japanese ghost stories (Ghost Story Of Yotsuya, Kuroneko, etc), the twist here being Communist director Yamamoto's playful depiction of the villagers' efforts to thwart the ghost's advances towards their middle class school teacher, Shinzaburou.As with most Yamamoto films, the emphasis here is on the ensemble playing of the cast rather than any leads. That said, the roles of Banzou and his wife do seem rather overplayed, probably betraying their origin as kabuki grotesques.Handsomely shot (Chishi Makiura) and scored (Sei Ikeno) to evoke a vivid sense of the dark, sticky nights of Obon, this is a curious and thoughtful horror film that somehow manages to give Bhuddism, capitalism and family a good kicking within the restrictions of the genre and the source material.
