The Ghost of Kasane

A blind masseur knocks at a samurai’s door. He has come to ask for a loan to be repaid. The samurai loses his temper and kills him. He has his servant dump the body in the Kasane swamp. The dead man does not leave him alone. His ghost begins to haunt the samurai’s house. The samurai kills his own wife by mistake. Then he goes to the swamp and never comes back. Twenty years pass. The masseur’s daughter falls in love with a young man. He is that samurai’s son, raised as a servant. She knows nothing of it. An accident leaves her face disfigured. The young man makes a plan to run away with another woman. The road out of town runs past the Kasane swamp. Katsuko Wakasugi and Keinosuke Wada appear in the sixty six minute film, a Japanese production Nobuo Nakagawa finished in 1957.