The Ghost of Yotsuya (Shintoho film)

The Ghost of Yotsuya
Directed byNobuo Nakagawa
Screenplay by
  • Masayoshi Ônuki
  • Yoshihiro Ishikawa
Based onYotsuya Kaidan
by Nanboku Tsuruya
Produced byMitsugu Okura
StarringShigeru Amachi
CinematographyTadashi Nishimoto
Music byChumei Watanabe
Production
company
Release date
  • 11 July 1959 (1959-07-11) (Japan)
Running time
76 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

The Ghost of Yotsuya (東海道四谷怪談, Tōkaidō Yotsuya Kaidan) is a 1959 Japanese supernatural horror film directed by Nobuo Nakagawa. The film is based on the kabuki play Yotsuya Kaidan. It was among the many horror films that Nakagawa adapted for Shintoho in the late 1950s and was one of the many adaptations of the play.