The Haunted Samurai

(2007)

★ 5 IMDb · 6 votes

Genres: Fantasy, Comedy

Year: 2007

Runtime: 107 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 降旗康男

Cast: Сатоси Цумабуки, 赤井英和, Тэруюки Кагава, 笛木優子, Мари Нацуки, Кураносукэ Сасаки, 鈴木砂羽, 森迫永依, 佐藤隆太, 上田耕一

Plot

A lowly but academically diligent warrior named Bessho Hikoshiro finds himself unable to move up in the world due to the stifling caste system of the Bakumatsu era. After being expelled from the household into which he was adopted through marriage and separated from his wife and son, he moves in with his disapproving elder brother and his wife. He meets his old class rival Enomoto Takeaki, now a commander of a naval ship, and is later told by a kindly noodle shop owner that Enomoto's rise in social status came about after he prayed at a shrine in Mukojima. Stumbling home drunk one night, Hikoshiro falls down a riverbank and comes across a small run-down shrine which he is convinced is affiliated to the one in Mukojima. Pressing his hands together in prayer, he unwittingly invites the unwanted attentions of the gods of poverty, pestilence and death..