A curious macabre tale over Japanese tradition and folklore when every year between august 16th until 20th a five days enshrined to the dead, they used to celebrate of Obon festival, a period that all dead people release from their graves, so to soothe the damned souls, the people used to unleash peony lanterns over the downriver, in this gloomy environment the story unfolds.
Meanwhile a wealthy family from colonial era following the Japanese tradition, when a married son died, the next single brother should be married with the widow to maintenance the power, due such young wife was already made a profitable marriage between the high class families, thus the family reunites to convince the applicant accepts the widow, turns out that Hagiwara Shinzaburô (Kôjirô Hongô) is a slight rebel member and denied marry his former brother's wife, also being a professor teaching poor children, such thing is an outrageous for his rich family that threat expel him from the family if he doesn't make your mind and reassess soon as he can.
Hagiwara is a man of principles and doesn't fold to own family, keeping lecturing to underserved children, at Obon festival he meeting at riverbank two women, one older and another beautiful and young, they follow Hagiwara until his house saying that the young one Otsuyo (Miyoko Akasa) was sell to red district due a debts from his father and she was sold for a wealthy costumer, although Otsuyo is still a virgin woman, the older maid beg for Hagiwara stays with Otsuyo, due she wants to stay with a young one, thus he is qualified to it, Hagiwara finds enchanted by such gorgeous Otsuyo and ends making love all night long, in the meantime his drunkard and womanizer sidekick see what's going on and warning Hagiwara that such women committed suicide and are ghosts, therefore he must avoid them, otherwise will be dead in five days at end of Obon period.
Fantastic ghostly story over Japanese tradition sizing occasion of Obon festival to developing this interesting story also concerning all procedure that ruled the Japanese family system in those past days in colonial era, fine to study how its eastern civilization was working at its time.
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First Watch: 2023 /How many: 1 /Source: DVD /Rating: 8.
