Constitutional soldiers and ghosts

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Constitutional soldiers and ghosts (also known as Kenpei to Yūrei) is a 1958 New Toho horror film,Directed by Nobuo Nakagawa.

## Plot

In the Year 1941, Kempeitai Tazawa and Akiko got married to the jealousy of Ensign Hajima. The following summer, when confidential documents were stolen from the military police, Namishima and Sergeant Takahashi, a confidant subordinate, charged Tazawa with a crime. After being tortured by Akiko and her mother, Tazawa was forced to make a false confession and was shot dead. Second class soldier Tazawa, who witnessed his brother's shooting as an archer and saw his brother screaming his innocence and cursed words, vowed revenge and volunteered for the military police. Namishima extended his poisonous fangs to Akiko, who was accused of being a national bandit and was suffering from life, and after driving her mother to suicide, she finally conquered her. Namishima went to the continent to hand over the layout of the Japanese army on the continent to Zhang Kakujin on the Chinese side, but on the way, the face of Sergeant Takahashi who entered the room was seen by the late Corporal Tazawa. I will kill this with a military sword. He packed the corpse in Yuki and threw it into the sea. Namishima, who appeared in the military police on the continent, was ironically ordered by Lieutenant Colonel Komori to arrest the big spy Zhang Kakuhito. It was Senior Military Police Tazawa, who is now a military police officer, who was sentenced to accompany him as a subordinate. However, by contacting Namishima, Kim Jong Il was only captured as a substitute at the scene. Kim Jong Il insisted that he was not Zhang Kakujin and called a Japanese nurse he knew as a witness. It was Akiko. She was also on the continent for revenge. Namishima, who was to be confronted in the interrogation room, killed Kim Jong Il and escaped to Zhang, and conspired with Kuran, who is a mistress of Zhang and is familiar with him, to kill Zhang and escaped. However, the gendarmerie's hands did not miss them. Namishima, who was chased by the graveyard after leaving the red orchid that appeared on Tazawa's mother's face, was arrested after being caught by the cross that appeared on Tazawa's face. The heavy punishment of the court martial was waiting for Namishima. Akiko, who now visited the hospital room of the Army Hospital with a clear heart, accepted the proposal of Senior Tazawa on the condition that the war was over and both of them were safe.

## Cast

* Lieutenant Kenhei Hajima: Shigeru Amachi
* Kenhei Tazawa, Second Class Tazawa (second role): Shoji Nakayama
* Akiko Tazawa: Naoko Kubo
* Shizu Tazawa: Fumiko Miyata
* Kakuhito Zhang: Arata Shibata
* Kuran: Yoko Mihara
* Dancer: Masayo Banri
* Singer: Bi-Hoh Ko
* Lieutenant Colonel Komori: Akira Nakamura
* Sergeant Takahashi: Toshio Nimura
* Kinsei: Sōten Kuni

## Staff

* Director: Nobuo Nakagawa
* Production: Mitsugi Okura
* Planning: Katsuji Tsuda
* Screenplay: Yoshihiro Ishikawa
* Photo: Tadashi Nishimoto
* Art: Haruyasu Kurosawa
* Lighting: Jiro Sekikawa
* Recording: Zou Kataoka
* Music: Yoshi Eguchi
* Edit: Toshio Goto
* Assistant Director: Yoshihiro Ishikawa

## Titles

* Ghost in the Regiment (Original title)
* Constitutional soldiers and ghosts (Japanese: 憲兵と幽霊 Original japanese release title)
* Kenpei to Yūrei (Worldwide release title)

## Overview

Nobuo Nakagawa, who received a request from Mitsugi Okura to make a work with the same tendency in response to the hit of " Kenpei to Bara " ( Director Kyotaro Namiki , 1957) , put out the theme of "Seller and Patriot" Te  , is a work that Ishikawa Yoshihiro has screenplay of. Like "Kenpei to Bara", Shigeru Amachi and Shoji Nakayama are starring. Although it is a ghostly story-flavored gendarmerie , it is irresponsible to be tossed by the strong man of the army, the weak man of a soldier and his family who are at the mercy of it, and the information sent by the military and the media controlled by it. It depicts the wartime world from various perspectives of the mass media. Originally it was a hard-line military suspense, but it is said that Okura forcibly included a ghost story element  .

This is the first work by Shigeru Amachi starring in Nobuo Nakagawa's work.

### Commentary

A story about spies and murders that took place within the gendarmerie across the inland and continents during the war. The script by Yoshihiro Ishikawa was directed by Nobuo Nakagawa, a duo of "Black Cat Mansion," and shot by Tadashi Nishimoto. Special appearances include Shoji Nakayama and Naoko Kubo from "Nude Woman in the Sea", Yoko Mihara from "Hitogui Ama", Masayo Banri, Shigeru Amachi from "Bobon Riding Through", and Bi-Hoh Ko.