Tatsuya Nakadai
The Shintoho studio produced Nobuo Nakagawa's 1959 "Ghost of Yotsuya" ("Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan"), which is often considered by critics to be the finest screen adaptation of the story. Toho produced a version of "Ghost of Yotsuya" in 1965 directed by Shirō Toyoda and starring Tatsuya Nakadai that was released as "Illusion of Blood" abroad. In 1994, Kinji Fukasaku returned to the Kabuki roots and combined the stories of "Chūshingura" and "Yotsuya Kaidan" into the single "Crest of Betrayal".