Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Shinigami
Directed by Masateru Nishiyama
After a fight with his wife, Yahachirō, a carpenter, meets a sinister "Shinigami" who teaches him how to spot people who won’t die. He profits by treating only those who will survive but soon begins an affair with Osen, a barmaid. Osen and her husband Bunzō plot to kill Yahachirō for his money, strangling him and tossing his body into the river. But one night, Yahachirō reappears, his face twisted into a monstrous form…
Duration
0h 45m
Released
August 22, 1979
Part ofThe Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō
Includes Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Ōshū Adachigahara (1979), Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Kajikazawa (1979), Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Ōoku (Hi) Akazu no Ma (1979), Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Yotsuya Kaidan (1979), Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Saga no Kaibyō (1979), Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Kyūketsuki Murasaki Kengyō (1979), Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Tamagiku Dōrō (1979), Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Tone no Watashi (1979), Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Botan Dōrō (1979), Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Yonaki Numa (1979), Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Shinigami (1979), Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Kasane-ga-Fuchi (1979), and Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kōya Hijiri (1979).
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