
Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Tamagiku Dōrō
★★★★★
Japanese / 45 MIN. / 1979
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The Synopsis
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.