Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern

One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy merchant named Matasaburo, who had run away from home with a woman he was in love with and had been living here. But this funeral was actually a kyogen (a farce) orchestrated by a gardener named Yunosuke, who had planted it without telling his wife, Okinu, in order to bilk his parents out of their money. Matasaburo believed Yunosuke, who said he would dig him up right away, and was buried in the ground. ......

• Katsuhiko TasakaDirector
• Minoru InuzukaWriter
• Nakaba TakahashiOriginal Music Composer

• Ganjirō Nakamura IICast
• Katsuhiko KobayashiCast
• Reiko FujiwaraCast
• Chizuko TakamoriCast
• Yukio HorikitaCast
• Hiroshi NawaCast
• Shintarō NanjōCast
• Fumihiko YokoyamaCast
• Kimiko TachibanaCast
• Keiko KoyanagiCast
• Teruko ŌmiCast
• Masayoshi KikunoCast