Daiei Gothic Volume 2: Japanese Ghost Stories (1969) [Blu-ray / Box Set with Book (Restored Limited Edition)]

Japan's classic ghost stories are brought to the screen by masters of the genre, Tokuzo Tanaka (The Snow Woman) and Kimiyoshi Yasuda (Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare). In The Demon of Mount Oe, a group of mighty warriors is sent to eliminate a demon who steals women from the imperial capital of Kyoto. On the way, they face a satanic bull, a giant spider and a diabolical witch, but the closer they come to their goal, the more they realise that the demon they've been ordered to kill is far more human than they were led to believe. In The Haunted Castle, a blind monk is killed in a cowardly manner by a samurai lord. When the monk's sister is ordered to become the lord's concubine, she commits suicide and transfers her grudge to their black cat, who assumes the human form of one of the lord's ladies-in-waiting and begins to wreak havoc around the castle court. The lord's machiavellian right-hand man (Rokko Toura, Kuroneko) and a young swordsman (Kojiro Hongo, The Bride from Hades) combine forces to solve the mystery and stop the supernatural menace. In The Ghost of Kasane Swamp a samurai's wife tries to repay her husband's debt with her body but is caught in bed with the money lender and they are both murdered by her husband who dumps their bodies in a nearby swamp. Shingoro and Oshiga, the money lender and samurai's children, find a curse has been passed to them as they each try to recover the money. Newly restored in 4K, three more stories from the Daiei studio represent the Japanese ghost film at its most lavish and chilling.

Starring

Tokuzô Tanaka

Region

Region A,B

Publisher

Elevation Sales

Genre

Films cinema|Europe|Asia|Africa|Latin America|Oceania

Colour

Col &

Publication Date

13 Oct 2025

Catalogue No

RAD132BDLE

Date Published

13 Oct 2025

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BRBLR

Format

[Blu-ray / Box Set with Book (Restored Limited Edition)]

Country

Japan

Original Language

Japanese

Subtitles

Subtitled

UK Certification

TBC

Edition

Box Set with Book (Restored Limited Edition)

Duration

278

Year of Release

(1969)

Number of Items

3 disc(s)