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The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen

02 Nov 1938
  • Japan
74 mins
7.75
4 votes
  • Horror
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A quintessential example of the period "ghost cat" (bakeneko or kaibyo) movie, this was one of at least six such titles released by the studio Shinko Kinema between 1937-40 featuring Japan's first scream queen, Sumiko Suzuki. Here she plays Mitsue, the possessive onna-kabuki actress betrothed to apprentice shamisen player Seijiro. When one day Okiyo, a beautiful young girl of samurai class, is led to Seijiro's house by his lost cat Kuro, she becomes besotted with him. Dark jealous passions are invoked in Mitsue, which are intensified when Seijiro gifts 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.
  • 鈴木澄子

    as Mitsue Bando
  • 森光子

    as Onui, younger sister of Okiyo
  • Kinue Utagawa

    as Okiyo
  • 浅香新八郎

    as
  • 尾上栄五郎

    as
  • 寺島貢

    as
  • 高山廣子

    as Okimi
  • 六代目 嵐徳三郎

    as
  • Yaeko Asano

    as
  • Yuriko Asano

    as
  • 伴淳三郎

    as
  • Mitsuko Gun

    as

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