The read
Scores higher than 72% of the 1,160 1970s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
A married woman and her lover murder her husband and dump his body into a well, but his ghost returns to haunt them as the local gossip intensifies.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes80%
140 audience votes
Key crew
- Nagisa ŌshimaWriter
- Itoko NakamuraScreenplay
- Nagisa ŌshimaDirector
- Tōru TakemitsuOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Takahiro TamuraGisaburo
- Kazuko YoshiyukiSeki
- Tatsuya FujiToyoji
- Takuzō KawataniInspector Hotta
- Akiko KoyamaYoung Master's Mother
- Taiji TonoyamaToichiro
- Kenzō KawarasakiYoung Master
- Sumie SasakiOdame
- Eizō KitamuraCast
- Takaaki SugiuraCast
- Akiyoshi FujiwaraCast
- Masami HasegawaOshin
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Themes
regrethusband wife relationshipbased on novel or booksexual obsessionsuspicion of murderloverevengeunfaithfulnessstrangulationhangingvengeful ghostolder woman younger man relationship