Haunted Castle (1969)

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***Haunted Castle*** (Hiroku kaibyōden, *秘録怪猫伝(鬼上身)*, Lit. The Haunted Castle) also known as ***Secret Monster Cat Biography*** is a 1969 Japanese horror film produced by Daiei Motion Picture Company. the film stars Kojiro Hongo, Rokko Toura, Naomi Kobayashi and Mitsuyo Kamei.

## Plot

Around the time of Yoshimune, the eighth shogun. Saga 370,000 stones Nabeshima Tangomori was fascinated by the beauty of Ryuzoji Matashiro's younger sister Saya and forced him to present it to the concubine. Upon learning of this, the priest Yabuchi was collusion with his younger sister, Yutaka, for fear of losing his prestige, and Mamoru Tango, who was put on the tactics of the punishment, killed him. Saya, who realized the death of his brother's misery, cursed Tango Mamoru and the prison, entrusted revenge to his cat, and committed suicide. After licking the blood of Saya, his eyes shined brightly, and he flew in the sky and disappeared. Since then, the castle has been scared by the nightly mystery, and Komori Hanzaemon has been ordered to search for the mystery. The occasional incarnation turned into a well in Nakagurazawa, approaching Yutaka who witnessed the mysterious appearance. After a short break, the incarnation of the occasional incarnation that escaped from Sawai, which was cut by Hanzaemon, moved to Yutaka. Upon hearing this, the prisoner tried to escape from the castle, but now he was blocked by Toyo, who turned into a monster cat, and he was cut off by the throat whistle and died. Then, Hanzaemon, who fought with the monster cat that attacked Tango Mamoru, developed a fierce fight. On the sword of Hanzaemon, the monster cat fell into an old well where Matashichiro's corpse was buried. Then, the ghost of Matashichiro ascended from among them.

## Characters

* Komori Hanzaemon: Kojiro Hongo
* For those who are rich: Naomi Kobayashi
* Saya: Mitsuyo Kamei
* Yafuchi Osakabe: ToUra RokuHiroshi
* Nabeshima Tango Mamoru: Koichi Uenoyama
* Sanae: Akane Kawasaki
* Namie: Natsuko Oka
* Sawai: Ikuko Mouri
* Ryuzoji Matashiro: Akihisa Toda
* May: Yoko Atsuta
* Yae: Chiaki Shirakawa
* Konobu: Wada wig
* Shino: Kyoko Miwa
* Kurisuke: Yusaku Terashima
* Shobei Shimazaki: Shosaku Sugiyama
* Jinzaemon Goda: Ikkei Tamaki

## Overview

The only full-scale ghost cat movie in color wide work  . The cats that played the role of Tama were solicited and selected from the 60 finalists .

Published just before, appeared in this movie Ikuko Mori is December 14, was arrested committed a mistress stabbing incident to.

### Commentary

A youkai that was written by Shozaburo Asai of "Tokaido Haunted Road" and directed by Tokuzo Tanaka of "Sasafue Omon". Hiroshi Imai of "Prison Breaking" was in charge of shooting.

## Simultaneous screening

" Nemuri Shiro Sword "

* Original: Renzaburo Shibata / Screenplay: Yoshikata Yoda / Director: Kazuo Ikehiro / Starring: Hiroki Matsukata
* The 14th work of the Daiei version of the " Nemuri Shiro " series (the 2nd work of the Matsukata version) and the final work.

## References

This is a list of references for **Haunted Castle (1969)**. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

1. ↑ 秘録怪猫伝 : 作品情報 - 映画.com (in Japanese).

## External links

* Haunted Castle (1969) on Eiga.com
* Haunted Castle (1969) on IMDb
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