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Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern poster

Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern (1962)

One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa.
It was the only son of a wealthy merchant named Matasaburo, who had run away from home with a woman he was in love with and had been living here.
But this funeral was actually a kyogen (a farce) orchestrated by a gardener named Yunosuke, who had planted it without telling his wife, Okinu, in order to bilk his parents out of their money.
Matasaburo believed Yunosuke, who said he would dig him up right away, and was buried in the ground. ......

Release: 1962-06-24
Runtime: 73 min
Cast
Ganjirō Nakamura II
Ganjirō Nakamura II
Katsuhiko Kobayashi
Katsuhiko Kobayashi
Reiko Fujiwara
Reiko Fujiwara
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Chizuko Takamori
Yukio Horikita
Yukio Horikita
Hiroshi Nawa
Hiroshi Nawa
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Shintarō Nanjō
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Fumihiko Yokoyama
Kimiko Tachibana
Kimiko Tachibana
Keiko Koyanagi
Keiko Koyanagi
Teruko Ōmi
Teruko Ōmi
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Masayoshi Kikuno
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Noboru Taniguchi
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Kazuko Taniguchi