Wednesday, May 20, 2015

142. The ghost of Yotsuya (1959)


Country: Japan
Directed by Nobuo Nakagawa

For sure 'The ghost of Yotsuya' is a film that worths the mention as it opened the door for many J-Horror movies that were followed. Nobuo Nakagawa narrates a popular folk ghost story with delicate and nice minimal way in the most of the film's duration , coming to the peak of the action with some quite gory images that ,although nowadays seem rather ridiculous, were something daring and scary for the Japanese audience back then. The film is easy and pleasant to watch as is not even one scene on it that doesn't push fast the narration ahead: however is nothing really great  about it comparing with dozens Japanese masterpieces of the same era


You can watch the full movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvB_G1egSuQ

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