An ancient curse has turned their lives into a nightmare of lust and revenge.
At the prompting of his diplomat friend, Alex, writer Ted Fletcher takes his wife, Laura, and daughter, Amy, on an extended working holiday. Alex finds a house for them in Kyoto, Japan, and the Fletchers move in, laughing off rumors that the place is haunted. But the ghost of 19th-century samurai Shigero turns out to be very real, and is intent on making the family re-enact an ancient murder-suicide.
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Edward Albert
Ted Fletcher
Susan George
Laura Fletcher
Doug McClure
Alex Curtis
Amy Barrett
Amy Fletcher
Mako Hattori
Otami
Toshiya Maruyama
Masanori
Shunji Sasaki
Shugoro (as Toshiyuki Sasaki)
Tsuyako Okajima
Majyo Witch
Henry Mitowa
Zen Monk
Mayumi Umeda
Noriko
Hiroko Takano
Wakako
Shuren Sakurai
Noh Mask Maker
Shoji Ohara
Assistant Mask Maker
Jiro Shirai
Tadashi
Kazuo Yoshida
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