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Samurai

Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan

1h 16m

Directed by Nobuo Nakagawa • 1959 • Japan

Also known as THE GHOST OF YOTSUYA, this Nobuo Nakagawa film follows a samurai who betrays his wife, only to find her ghost has returned to reap her vengeance upon him.

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