Haunted Castle

The film takes place around a castle. The castle belongs to a warlord. The man kills a blind monk. The monk has a sister. The lord forces the woman to become his concubine. She will not submit and takes her own life. But her grudge stays behind. The grudge passes into the household’s black cat. The cat takes human form. It appears in the castle as a lady-in-waiting. Then things begin to go wrong inside the court. Deaths and strange events follow one another. The lord’s right-hand man takes the matter in hand. He brings a young swordsman with him. The two of them look for the source of what is happening. The film belongs to the ghost cat tradition of Japanese folklore. Kōjirō Hongō and Naomi Kobayashi take the leads in Tokuzō Tanaka’s Japanese film of 1969.