But later, when he returned to that river, Oiwa’s ghost rose from the water to haunt him no matter where he fled. Foreboding depictions of this Japanese ghost story and others like it populate ...

Called Yotsuya Kaidan, it’s an unforgettable tale of that archetypal powerless woman whose only recourse for revenge against the man who betrays her love is to become a ghost. Oiwa, a beautiful ...