Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.
Michiyo Aratama
Rentaro Mikuni
Misako Watanabe
Kenjirō Ishiyama
Ranko Akagi
Fumie Kitahara
Kappei Matsumoto
Yoshiko Ieda
Otome Tsukimiya
Kenzō Tanaka
Kiyoshi Nakano
Tatsuya Nakadai
Keiko Kishi
Yūko Mochizuki
Kin Sugai
Noriko Sengoku
Akiko Nomura
Torahiko Hamada
Jun Hamamura
Katsuo Nakamura
Tetsuro Tamba
Takashi Shimura
Yoichi Hayashi
Eiko Muramatsu
Kunie Tanaka
Kazuo Kitamura
Ichirō Nakatani
Masanori Tomotake
Tokue Hanazawa
Shizue Natsukawa
Shin Tatsuoka
Makiko Kitashiro
Masakazu Kuwayama
Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru
Akira Tani
Yousuke Kondou
Kiyoshi Yamamoto
Kinji Omino
Atsuo Nakamura
Ginzô Sekiguchi
Akio Miyabe
Gen'ya Nagai
Toru Uchida
Hikaru Jinno
Toshio Fukuhara
Kirô Abe
Toshiro Yagi
Yuriko Abe
Yuri Satô
Kyōichi Satō
Nobuo Aikawa
Taiji Kodama
Nobuaki Maeda
Teruhiko Shibata
Haruo Kaji
Michio Gina
Seiji Tabe
Mitsuko Narita
Noriko Mikura
Aiko Nagayama
Michiko Nakahata
Kan'emon Nakamura
Osamu Takizawa
Haruko Sugimura
Noboru Nakaya
Seiji Miyaguchi
Kei Satō
Shigeru Kōyama
Jun Tazaki
Junkichi Orimoto
Akiji Kobayashi
Yoshirō Aoki
Isao Tamagawa
Hideyo Amamoto
Ganjirō Nakamura II