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.
Elenco: Michiyo Aratama , Misako Watanabe , Rentaro Mikuni , Kenjirō Ishiyama , Ranko Akagi , Fumie Kitahara , Kappei Matsumoto , Yoshiko Ieda , Otome Tsukimiya , Kenzô Tanaka , Kiyoshi Nakano , Tatsuya Nakadai , Keiko Kishi , Yūko Mochizuki , Kin Sugai , Noriko Sengoku , Akiko Nomura , Torahiko Hamada , Jun Hamamura , Katsuo Nakamura , Tetsurō Tamba , Takashi Shimura , Yoichi Hayashi , Eiko Muramatsu , Kunie Tanaka , Kazuo Kitamura , Ichirô Nakatani , Masanori Tomotake , Tokue Hanazawa , Shizue Natsukawa , Shin Tatsuoka , Makiko Kitashiro , Masakazu Kuwayama , Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru , Akira Tani , Yôsuke Kondô , 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 , Kyôichi Satô , 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 , Yoshirô Aoki , Isao Tamagawa , Hideyo Amamoto , Ganjirô Nakamura II .