Cast of
The Haunted Samurai

About The Haunted Samurai

  • Released on June 22, 2007

A lowly but academically diligent warrior named Bessho Hikoshiro finds himself unable to move up in the world due to the stifling caste system of the Bakumatsu era. After being expelled from the household into which he was adopted through marriage and separated from his wife and son, he moves in with his disapproving elder brother and his wife. He meets his old class rival Enomoto Takeaki, now a commander of a naval ship, and is later told by a kindly noodle shop owner that Enomoto's rise in social status came about after he prayed at a shrine in Mukojima. Stumbling home drunk one night, Hikoshiro falls down a riverbank and comes across a small run-down shrine which he is convinced is affiliated to the one in Mukojima. Pressing his hands together in prayer, he unwittingly invites the unwanted attentions of the gods of poverty, pestilence and death..

Full Cast of The Haunted Samurai

Satoshi Tsumabuki
plays Bessho Hikoshiro

Satoshi Tsumabuki as Bessho Hikoshiro

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Hidekazu Akai

Teruyuki Kagawa

Yûko Fueki
plays Yae


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