Cinematheque: Samurai Swordplay and Beyond

(35mm, 84min., subtitled; with Kazuo Hasegawa. Directed by Kenji Misumi) In one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of vengeance. Misumi’s brilliant black & white version of this bloody tale puts a new twist on the old story by presenting the husband in a much more sympathetic light.