The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen

The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen (1938)


  • Genre: Horror
  • Release Date: 1938-11-02
  • User Rating: 7/10 from 3 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 14min
  • Language: 日本語
  • Production Company: Shinko
  • Production Country: Japan
  • Director: Kiyohiko Ushihara
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Summary

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.

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  • Sumiko Suzuki

    as Mitsue Bando
  • Mitsuko Mori

    as Onui, younger sister of Okiyo
  • Kinue Utagawa

    as Okiyo
  • Shinpachirō Asaka

    as
  • Eigorō Onoe

    as
  • Mitsugu Terashima

    as
  • Hiroko Takayama

    as Okimi
  • Tokusaburo Arashi

    as
  • Yaeko Asano

    as
  • Yuriko Asano

    as
  • Junzaburō Ban

    as
  • Mitsuko Gun

    as
  • Matsuko Hidaka

    as
  • Yasumasa Jitsukawa

    as
  • Taisuke Matsumoto

    as
  • Matsuko Miho

    as
  • Yukiko Miyagawa

    as
  • Shizuko Mori

    as
  • Shōzō Nanbu

    as
  • Fujiko Suwa

    as
  • Masako Takamatsu

    as
  • Yoshiko Tomei

    as
  • Yōko Umemura

    as Osen
  • Eiko Wakaba

    as
Directing Kiyohiko Ushihara Director
Camera Takenori Takahashi Director of Photography
Writing Shōtarō Saijō Screenplay
Writing Shōtarō Saijō Original Story

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