Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern
Genres
Overview
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. ......
Details
Budget
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Revenue
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Runtime
73 min
Release Date
1962-06-24
Status
Released
Original Language
Japanese
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Ganjirō Nakamura II
Katsuhiko Kobayashi
Reiko Fujiwara
Chizuko Takamori
Yukio Horikita
Hiroshi Nawa
Shintarō Nanjō
Fumihiko Yokoyama
Kimiko Tachibana
Keiko Koyanagi
Teruko Ōmi
Masayoshi Kikuno
Noboru Taniguchi
Kazuko Taniguchi
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7.1
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0.0
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Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear.
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6.7
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6.7
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1968-04-20 | ja
5.0
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10.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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7.8
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6.5
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7.5
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8.0
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8.0
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0.0
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5.0
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0.0
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