Japanese Ghost Story Masterpiece Theater: The Tamagiku Lantern

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Japanese Ghost Story Masterpiece Theater: The Tamagiku Lantern (1979)

Directed by Junji Kurata

TV Movie, Horror, Drama · 45m

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.

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Cast

Shinobu Yuki
T
Toshio Egi Keiko Nishioka
沢
沢かおり
Y
Yoshitaka Nishiyama
S
Shuntaro Tamamura
木
木島みゆき Ryō Nishida
Y
Yonehachi Shima
K
Kinya Suzuki
M
Mariko Miyamoto
美
美鷹健児

Crew

Director
Junji Kurata
Screenplay
Taizō Fuyushima

Details

Original title
日本名作怪談劇場 怪談 玉菊燈籠
Release date
1979-08-01
Runtime
45m
Genres
TV Movie, Horror, Drama
Original language
JA
Spoken languages
Japanese
Countries
Japan
Production
TV Tokyo