Film
Japanese Ghost Story Masterpiece Theater: The Tamagiku Lantern
Japan- Director
- Junji Kurata
- Year
- 1979
Dance teacher Omiyo survives a double suicide with her lover and is forced into life as the courtesan Tamagiku in Yoshiwara. Living in misery, she meets Gengo, her lover’s look-alike brother, and they fall in love. Jealous rival Naraya frames Gengo as a criminal, and he is struck by lightning and killed before Tamagiku’s eyes. After her own death, Tamagiku rises from hell to seek revenge on Naraya and his allies.
Top cast
Directed by
Junji Kurata
Written by
Taizō Fuyushima