The Bride From Hades
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The Bride from Hades
Noble samurai Shinzaburo (Kojiro Hongo,Ā Gamera) is visited one night by the beautiful courtesan Otsuyu (Miyoko Akaza,Ā Lady Snowblood). She pleads with him to marry her and save her from life in a brothel. Instantly captivated by her beauty, Shinzaburo agrees and a cautious love affair develops, but in his infatuation, he fails to realise that Otsuyu is a ghost. His friends band together to drive off the spirit, but can the love-stricken Shinzaburo resist the haunting lure of this enchantress? Working from a script by Ugetsuās Yoshikata Yoda, originalĀ ShinobiĀ director Satsuo Yamamoto brings this classic Japanese ghost tale to the screen with breathtaking stylistic beauty. His visualisation of the alluring female ghost prefiguresĀ A Chinese Ghost StoryĀ and greatly inspired the J-horror movement.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- New 4K restoration
- Uncompressed mono PCM audio
- Appreciation by filmmaker and screenwriter Hiroshi Takahashi
- Audio commentary by critic and author Jasper Sharp
- Trailer
- Newly improved English subtitle translation
The Bride From Hades
Ā
The Bride from Hades
Noble samurai Shinzaburo (Kojiro Hongo,Ā Gamera) is visited one night by the beautiful courtesan Otsuyu (Miyoko Akaza,Ā Lady Snowblood). She pleads with him to marry her and save her from life in a brothel. Instantly captivated by her beauty, Shinzaburo agrees and a cautious love affair develops, but in his infatuation, he fails to realise that Otsuyu is a ghost. His friends band together to drive off the spirit, but can the love-stricken Shinzaburo resist the haunting lure of this enchantress? Working from a script by Ugetsuās Yoshikata Yoda, originalĀ ShinobiĀ director Satsuo Yamamoto brings this classic Japanese ghost tale to the screen with breathtaking stylistic beauty. His visualisation of the alluring female ghost prefiguresĀ A Chinese Ghost StoryĀ and greatly inspired the J-horror movement.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- New 4K restoration
- Uncompressed mono PCM audio
- Appreciation by filmmaker and screenwriter Hiroshi Takahashi
- Audio commentary by critic and author Jasper Sharp
- Trailer
- Newly improved English subtitle translation
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Ā
The Bride from Hades
Noble samurai Shinzaburo (Kojiro Hongo,Ā Gamera) is visited one night by the beautiful courtesan Otsuyu (Miyoko Akaza,Ā Lady Snowblood). She pleads with him to marry her and save her from life in a brothel. Instantly captivated by her beauty, Shinzaburo agrees and a cautious love affair develops, but in his infatuation, he fails to realise that Otsuyu is a ghost. His friends band together to drive off the spirit, but can the love-stricken Shinzaburo resist the haunting lure of this enchantress? Working from a script by Ugetsuās Yoshikata Yoda, originalĀ ShinobiĀ director Satsuo Yamamoto brings this classic Japanese ghost tale to the screen with breathtaking stylistic beauty. His visualisation of the alluring female ghost prefiguresĀ A Chinese Ghost StoryĀ and greatly inspired the J-horror movement.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- New 4K restoration
- Uncompressed mono PCM audio
- Appreciation by filmmaker and screenwriter Hiroshi Takahashi
- Audio commentary by critic and author Jasper Sharp
- Trailer
- Newly improved English subtitle translation
