Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern

Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern  - Movie (1962)

Original title

怪談夜泣き燈籠

Released

6/24/1962

Origin country

JP

Genre

Horror

Production companies

Daiei Film

Budget

Revenue

Runtime

1hr 13min

Description

One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy merchant named Matasaburo, who had run away from home with a woman he was in love with and had been living here. But this funeral was actually a kyogen (a farce) orchestrated by a gardener named Yunosuke, who had planted it without telling his wife, Okinu, in order to bilk his parents out of their money. Matasaburo believed Yunosuke, who said he would dig him up right away, and was buried in the ground. ......

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