The Haunted Samurai

Name: The Haunted Samurai
Director: Yasuo Furuhata
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy
Released: 2007
Duration: 107 min
Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Hidekazu Akai, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yuko Fueki, Mari Natsuki

20071h 47mdir. Yasuo Furuhatascreenplay Yasuo Furuhatascreenplay Toshiki Kokubo

5.0TMDb

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Overview

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..