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Actor Katsuko Wakasugi

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Age: 99 (1926-03-23)

From: Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

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The Ghost of Yotsuya 1959 ( 6.556)

This horror tale relates the consequences of a Japanese legend which tells of a man who has to betray his wife in order to achieve power.

The Ghost of Kasane 1957 ( 6.7)

A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane swamp. However, the ghost of the masseur returns to haunt the samurai, who kills his wife by mistake and then goes to the swamp and drowns himself. 20 years later, the masseur's daughter unknowingly falls in love with the samurai's son who has been brought up to be a servant. After she is horribly disfigured in an accident, he plots to run away with another woman, but the path of their escape lies by the Kasane swamp...

The Mother Tree 1958 ( 5)

A painter leaves his family to paint the homes of his rich clients. A lonely, ruthless samurai falls in love with the painter's wife and rapes her. He later murders the painter and his servants. From the afterlife, the painter's ghost seeks revenge on the samurai, and saves his wife and newborn child.