Banshû sarayashiki Filming Locations

This was the first vision of Okiku, one of Japan's seminal avenging female ghosts. The legend of Okiku, a servant-girl tortured and murdered by Aoyama Tessan, her lustful master, was adapted for bunraku theatre under the title Banchu Sarayashiki in 1741, and Nakawa Harusuke I's kabuki version of the same name was the first staged in Osaka in 1824, In the play , Okiku is killed by being thrown down a well, from which her vengeful spectre duly emerges in a scene of horror previously depicted by ukiyo-e artists such as Hokusai, Kunisada,and Kuniyoshi, Tessan, haunted by the plate-smashing apparition, is subsequently driven mad, Yokota's film is also known as Banshu Sarayashiki Okiku No Yurai ("The Plate Mansion in Banshu: History O Okiku")