The Mansion of the Ghost Cat
- Friday 27.5. 20:00 Uhr German Film Museum
(Tickets only available at the German Film Museum) - 亡霊怪猫屋敷
Borei kaibyo yashiki - Japan 1958, 35mm, 69 min, Japanese with English subtitles
- Director: Nobuo NAKAGAWA
- Script: Yoshihiro ISHIKAWA, Jiro FUJISHIMA nach einem Roman by Sotoo TACHIBANA
- Production: Shintoho
- Camera: Tadashi NISHIMOTO
- Cast: Toshio HOSOKAWA, Yuriko EJIMA, Ryuzaburo NAKAMURA, Fujie SATSUKI, Noriko KITAZAWA
- Rights: International Television Films
- Film copy: Japan Foundation
- With an introduction by Sebastian Lauritz
A doctor and his wife must face a vengeful ghost and an old curse that is tied to their house. NAKAGAWA’s use of both stark black-and-white imagery and gorgeous color photography shows his masterful ability to create suspense and atmosphere. He would follow up with two milestones of Japanese horror cinema: THE GHOST OF YOTSUYA and JIGOKU.
In cooperation with the Japan Foundation Tokyo and the Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln