It may seem tame when compared to today’s horror movies, but what it lacks in graphic gore this film from director Kaneto Shindo more than makes up for in sheer creepiness. The story opens in a remote farmhouse where a young woman and her mother-in-law, left alone when the man of the house is sent off to war, are brutalized and murdered by a gang of passing samurai. Just before they die, the women beg the gods to let them become ghosts who will haunt the world and drink the blood of samurais until there is no blood left to drink. The local authorities try to rid their town of the ghosts, but only add to the body count. A young hero returning from the war is charged with killing the ghosts once and for all, unaware that he is bound to them in surprising ways.
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