Ghost of Chibusa Enoki

Ghost of Chibusa Enoki
Directed by Goro Katano
Hiromichi Takebe (assistant director)
Produced by Shintoho
Mitsugu Okura (producer)
Written by Enchō San'yuutei (novel)
Release date
  • July 13, 1958 (1958-07-13)[1]
Running time
 47 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese

Ghost of Chibusa Enoki (怪談乳房榎, Kaidan chibusa enoki), aka The Mother Tree,[2] is a 1958 black-and-white, full screen Japanese film directed by Goro Katano. It is in the Japanese horror film (J-Horror) genre. The film was not dubbed in English nor shown theatrically in the U.S.

Synopsis

A painter leaves his family to paint the homes of his rich clients. A lonely, ruthless samurai falls in love with the painter's wife and rapes her. He later murders the painter and his servants. From the afterlife, the painter's ghost seeks revenge on the samurai, and saves his wife and newborn child.

Cast

  • Asao Matsumoto
  • Katsuko Wakasugi
  • Keiko Hasegawa[3]
  • Akira Nakamura

References

  1. ↑ (in Japanese) http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1958/ch002850.htm accessed 25 May 2009
  2. ↑ https://mahimahi.uchicago.edu/admin/ceas/asset.php?assetid=0001208&titlestart=M accessed 25 May 2009
  3. ↑ Galbraith,Stuart (1994). Japanese Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror Films. McFarland and Co., Inc.


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