Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit
1968
86 minutes
Overview
Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife. To avoid her fate, Lady Takafusa drowns herself along with her cat in a nearby marsh. A decade later, Naoshige’s efforts to steal another woman trigger a curse on him when she also commits suicide at the same marsh — forcing him to suffer the consequences of his past actions.
Top Cast
Ryōhei Uchida
Nabeshima Naoshige
Kōtarō Satomi
Yuki Jonosuke
Kyoko Mikage
Yukiji
Masumi Tachibana
Lady Orin
Yuriko Mishima
Yuri
Machiko Yashiro
Lady Hyuga
Misa Toki
Sayo
Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Kumi
Keiichiro Shimada
Ryuzoji Takafusa
Kenji Kusumoto
Sasaki Hayato
Yōichi Numata
Torakichi
Bunta Sugawara
Shibayama Ukon
Kinji Nakamura
Doctor
Ichitarō Kuni
Ukon's subordinate
Kin'ya Suzuki
Zuimeiji priest
Mitsukazu Kawamura
Tokuko Miura
Fujiki
Ryūko Azuma
Chiyo Okada
Princess Kiyo
Yasuko Ogura
Satsuki
Taizen Shishido
Hideto Kagawa
Chiyomaru
Tadashi Katō
Masatoshi Ōya
Mie Hayashi
The Tsuyamas' maid
Minori Tsukasa
Keiko Kojima
Matsushima
Hiroshi Nawa
Kuroiwa Shuzen
Tatsuo Matsumura
Tsuyama Mataemon
Takayuki Akutagawa
Narrator (voice)