Masseur’s Curse (怪談累が渕) 54 years old

One murky night, Soetsu, a blind acupuncturist and money lender, calls on Shinzaemon Fukami, a Hatamoto samurai, to collect some money. But Fukami is too busy having an affair with a maid and curtly tells Soetsu to ask Sawano, his wife, for the money. As they have no money, Sawano interprets her husband's words as telling her to give herself to Soetsu in lieu of payment. However, Fukami catches them in the act and kills them both. Snatching up Soetsu's money bag with 30 ryo in it, he then asks two ruffians, to sink the bodies in a marsh. From what follows, it seems as if the spirits of Soetsu and Sawano are still hovering on earth in anguish and anger. For soon afterwards, Fukami is found dead by his own hand and Osono, Soetsu's younger daughter, suddenly disappears from home.

Credits

Masseur’s Curse Cast

Name Character
Saburo Date He was 46, 67 years old when he died as Fukami Shinzaemon
Kenjiro Ishiyama He was 66, 72 years old when he died as Soetsu
Kanae Kobayashi She was 82, 72 years old when she died as Osei, the brothel madam
Takumi Shinjo as Otaki
Yukio Horikita He was 54, now 108 years old as Tomeroku
Ryuko Mizukami as Ohisa
Ikkei Tamaki He was 62, 62 years old when he died as Kawachiya Yohei
Teruko Omi She was 49, 90 years old when she died as Oseki
Reiko Kasahara She was 24, now 79 years old as Okuma
Chikara Hashimoto He was 36, 83 years old when he died
Akane Kawasaki She was 21, now 76 years old as Okyo

Masseur’s Curse Crew

Name Department
Kimiyoshi Yasuda as Director. He was 59 (72) years old when He died Directing
Shozaburo Asai as Writer. Writing
Chikashi Makiura as Director of Photography. Camera
Enchô San'yûtei as Story. Writing
Masseur’s Curse (54 years)

  • Release day: Saturday, June 20, 1970
  • Runtime: 82 minutes