Curse of the Blood

1968 film directed by Kazuo Hase

Masakazu Tamura^[3]
Koeda Kawaguchi

CinematographyKeiji MaruyamaEdited byKazuo OtaMusic byHajime Kaburagi

Production
company

Shochiku Ofuna^[4]

Distributed byShochiku

Release date

May 31, 1968 (1968-05-31) ( Japan)

Running time

88 minutesCountryJapanLanguageJapanese

Curse of the Blood (Japanese: 怪談残酷物語, Hepburn: Kaidan Zankoku Monogatari) is a 1968 Japanese jidaigeki Horror film directed by Kazuo Hase^[5]^[6] and screenplay by Masashige Narusawa.^[7] It stars Masakazu Tamura.^[8] Curse of the Blood was adapted from the novel Kaidan Kasanegafuchi written by Renzaburō Shibata.^[9]

Plot

Source:^[10]

Fukaya Shinzaemon is a samurai of Hatamoto, he borrows a large amount of money from Dr. Yasukawa Sōjun. When Yasukawa demands repayment of the debt, Fukaya kills Yasukawa. From the day on, strange things happens to the Fukaya family one after another by Yasukawa's curse.

Cast

Masakazu Tamura as Shinichirō
Koeda Kawaguchi
Yūsuke Kawazu as Shiznō
Yukie Kagawa as Hana
Rokkō Toura as Fukaya Shinzaemon
Hiroko Sakurai as Ohisa
Genshu Hanayagi as Toyo
Masumi Harukawa as Okuma
Nobuo Kaneko as Dr.Yasukawa Sōjun

References

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