Kaidan
A poor tobacco merchant falls in love with a music teacher, but a curse leads to horrific consequences. Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His…
Kaidan
A poor tobacco merchant falls in love with a music teacher, but a curse leads to horrific consequences. Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river. According to legend, all who drown in the river will never surface again. 20 Years later, Shinkichi, the handsome son of Shinzaemon, coincidentally meets Toyoshiga, the daughter of Soetsu. They fall in love. It is a doomed love, as the spirit of Soetsu is far from dead. —Anonymous In the Nineteenth Century, the acupuncturist Soetsu lives with his daughters Oshiga and Osano in the Shimousa Province, Japan. He saves some money, becomes a moneylender and lends his money to the samurai Fukami. Three years later, he visits Fukami to collect his money and the samurai kills him and dumps his body in the Kasane Swamp, where bodies disappear and never return to the surface. However, before dying, Soetsu curses Fukami and the samurai goes crazy and kills his wife. Twenty-five years later, Fukami's son Shinkichi, who is a street vendor of tobacco, meets Oshiga, who is a singing teacher in Edo, and they fall in love with each other. Oshiga is older than Shinkichi and financially supports him. She becomes infamous in Edo and when her student Ohisa flirts with Shikichi, she becomes jealous and decides to give no more classes to her. Shinkichi decides to leave Oshiga and move to his homeland Hanyu with Ohisa. Oshiga has an argument with Shinkichi and he hits her face with the Bachi of her Shamisen. Oshiga has an infection in her face and dies; however, she curses Shinkichi and promises that she will haunt and take to the grave any woman that he loves. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil With betrayal and murder condemning his lineage, Shinkichi, the cursed son of a rogue samurai, falls in love with beautiful Toyoshiga, a respected schoolteacher. But blood remembers. Now tied forever with the unbreakable bond of tragedy and sin, Shinkichi is about to realise that blinding desire comes at a high cost; the murderous past of his kin and the grave consequences of his actions will always stand in the way of finding true love. As injustice invites revenge from the grave, misery and suffering await Shinkichi. After all, the ghosts of the dead demand appeasement above all else. Is the doomed lover prepared to pay with his life? —Nick Riganas
Kaidan
Drama,Horror,Romance
Film Details
A poor tobacco merchant falls in love with a music teacher, but a curse leads to horrific consequences. Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon.
His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river. According to legend, all who drown in the river will never surface again. 20 Years later, Shinkichi, the handsome son of Shinzaemon, coincidentally meets Toyoshiga, the daughter of Soetsu.
They fall in love. It is a doomed love, as the spirit of Soetsu is far from dead. —Anonymous In the Nineteenth Century, the acupuncturist Soetsu lives with his daughters Oshiga and Osano in the Shimousa Province, Japan.
He saves some money, becomes a moneylender and lends his money to the samurai Fukami. Three years later, he visits Fukami to collect his money and the samurai kills him and dumps his body in the Kasane Swamp, where bodies disappear and never return to the surface. However, before dying, Soetsu curses Fukami and the samurai goes crazy and kills his wife.
Twenty-five years later, Fukami's son Shinkichi, who is a street vendor of tobacco, meets Oshiga, who is a singing teacher in Edo, and they fall in love with each other. Oshiga is older than Shinkichi and financially supports him. She becomes infamous in Edo and when her student Ohisa flirts with Shikichi, she becomes jealous and decides to give no more classes to her.
Shinkichi decides to leave Oshiga and move to his homeland Hanyu with Ohisa. Oshiga has an argument with Shinkichi and he hits her face with the Bachi of her Shamisen. Oshiga has an infection in her face and dies; however, she curses Shinkichi and promises that she will haunt and take to the grave any woman that he loves.
—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil With betrayal and murder condemning his lineage, Shinkichi, the cursed son of a rogue samurai, falls in love with beautiful Toyoshiga, a respected schoolteacher. But blood remembers. Now tied forever with the unbreakable bond of tragedy and sin, Shinkichi is about to realise that blinding desire comes at a high cost; the murderous past of his kin and the grave consequences of his actions will always stand in the way of finding true love.
As injustice invites revenge from the grave, misery and suffering await Shinkichi. After all, the ghosts of the dead demand appeasement above all else. Is the doomed lover prepared to pay with his life? —Nick Riganas.