, aka ''The Mother Tree'', is a 1958 black-and-white, full screen

Japanese film The has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; as of 2021, it was the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. In 2011 Japan produced 411 feature films that ea ...

directed by Goro Katano. It is in the Japanese horror film (

J-Horror Japanese horror is horror fiction derived from popular culture in Japan, generally noted for its unique thematic and conventional treatment of the horror genre differing from the traditional Western representation of horror. Japanese horror tends ...

) genre. The film was not dubbed in English nor shown theatrically in the United States.

Synopsis

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.

Cast

* Asao Matsumoto * Katsuko Wakasugi * Keiko HasegawaGalbraith,Stuart (1994). ''Japanese Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror Films''. McFarland and Co., Inc. * Akira Nakamura

References

External links

* Japanese horror films Japanese black-and-white films 1958 films 1958 horror films Shintoho films 1950s ghost films Fiction about curses Films about murder Films about rape Japanese films about revenge 1950s Japanese films {{1950s-horror-film-stub