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Directing
Yoshihiro Ishikawa
Born March 23, 1925 (age 101)
No biography available.
Known For
Ohyaku: The Female Demon · 1968Ohyaku: The Female Demon
★ 6.91968
MovieActionDrama
Ohyaku is a grifter who falls in love with a thief, who recruits her for his plan to rob a shipment of government gold. When this plan goes wrong and Ohyaku ends up in prison, she resolves to do anything to escape and claim revenge on the ones who betrayed her and her lover.
Ghost Story of Yotsuya · 1959Ghost Story of Yotsuya
★ 6.51959
MovieHorror
This horror tale adapts the Japanese legend about a man who faces the consequences of betraying his wife in order to acquire wealth and power.
Straight Talk on Romance: The Definitive Guide · 1961Straight Talk on Romance: The Definitive Guide
1961
MovieDramaRomance
A omnibus movie consisting of the three parts: "Kechinbo", "Yowak" and "Kōshoku".
The Ghost of Kasane · 1957The Ghost of Kasane
★ 7.31957
MovieHorror
A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane swamp. However, the ghost of the masseur returns to haunt the samurai, who kills his wife by mistake and then goes to the swamp and drowns himself. 20 years later, the masseur's daughter unknowingly falls in love with the samurai's son who has been brought up to be a servant. After she is horribly disfigured in an accident, he plots to run away with another woman, but the path of their escape lies by the Kasane swamp...
Ghost in the Regiment · 1958Ghost in the Regiment
★ 8.01958
MovieHorrorCrime
Desiring another officer’s new wife, a military police lieutenant fabricates evidence of treason that consigns the innocent man to torture and a firing squad. The lieutenant rapes the wife, but is haunted by bad dreams which after he is assigned to a battalion with the victim’s brother.
Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit · 1968Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit
★ 9.01968
MovieHorror
Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife. To avoid her fate, Lady Takafusa drowns herself along with her cat in a nearby marsh. A decade later, Naoshige’s efforts to steal another woman trigger a curse on him when she also commits suicide at the same marsh — forcing him to suffer the consequences of his past actions.
Black Cat Mansion · 1958Black Cat Mansion
★ 6.51958
MovieDramaHorror
The descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to find that a cat who is possessed by the spirits of those murdered by the samurai is trying to kill her.
The Lady Vampire · 1959The Lady Vampire
★ 5.41959
MovieHorror
Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who disappeared twenty years ago when she was just a baby. No one knows the first thing about the artist who painted it, but he goes by the name Shiro Sofue, and he's always wearing shades in the daytime...









