The Haunted Samurai (憑神) 17 years old

A lowly but academically diligent warrior named Bessho Hikoshiro finds himself unable to move up in the world due to the stifling caste system of the Bakumatsu era. After being expelled from the household into which he was adopted through marriage and separated from his wife and son, he moves in with his disapproving elder brother and his wife. He meets his old class rival Enomoto Takeaki, now a commander of a naval ship, and is later told by a kindly noodle shop owner that Enomoto's rise in social status came about after he prayed at a shrine in Mukojima. Stumbling home drunk one night, Hikoshiro falls down a riverbank and comes across a small run-down shrine which he is convinced is affiliated to the one in Mukojima. Pressing his hands together in prayer, he unwittingly invites the unwanted attentions of the gods of poverty, pestilence and death..

Credits

The Haunted Samurai Cast

Name Character
Teruyuki Kagawa He was 41, now 58 years old
Satoshi Tsumabuki He was 26, now 43 years old as Bessho Hikoshiro
Yuko Fueki She was 28, now 45 years old as Yae
Hidekazu Akai He was 47, now 65 years old

The Haunted Samurai Crew

Name Department
Yasuo Furuhata as Director. He was 72 (84) years old when He died Directing
The Haunted Samurai poster
The Haunted Samurai (17 years)

  • Release day: Friday, June 22, 2007
  • Runtime: 107 minutes