Seijun SuzukiCast
Toshiya Fujita Naoko Otani 
Yoshio Harada
Plot
Two professors meet a geisha who looks like the wife of one of them, and a ghostly tale begins. It won the top prize at the Blue Ribbon Awards.
Sinekatalog’s take
Seijun Suzuki's eerie ghost story follows two professors and a geisha who looks like one's wife, tangled in a puzzling haunted web. Dreamlike, sensual and odd, it is a famous, hypnotic piece of Japanese cinema.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.9 / 10 (1,670 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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