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(1960) Namiji Matsuura, Shôzaburô Date, Noriko Kitazawa, Akira Nakamura, Hiroshi Shingûji. A young man and his bride-to-be are walking at night through a wooded area after missing the bus. They find themselves at an eerie pond. When they try to leave they seem to go around in circles. However, when a strange black cat appears, they follow it to the ruins of a ghostly mansion. Then a horrific ghost appears and the girl becomes ill. The next morning a local minister tells the young man that his fiancé is marked with a curse of death. Then he explains—in a lengthy flashback sequence—the origin of the curse and the two families behind it. What follows is one horrific scene after another, culminating with non-stop moments of terror featuring some of the scariest ghosts you’ve ever seen on screen. Ghost Cat of Otama Pond is a top-of-the-line Japanese horror film. English subtitles. Color, anmorphic widescreen, 35mm.
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