Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace
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- Takako Irie
- Kotaro Bando[1]
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| Directed by | Ryohei Arai |
| Written by | Tōkichi Kinoshita |
| Produced by | Masaichi Nagata[1] |
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| Music by | Nakaba Takahashi |
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Running time | 49 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace (怪猫有馬御殿, Kaibyō Arima goten) is a 1953 Japanese horror film directed by Ryohei Arai and produced by Daiei Film. Filmed in black and white in the Academy ratio format, it stars Takako Irie and Kotaro Bando.[1]
A prior version of the story, titled Arima Neko, was released in 1937.[2]
Okoyo, the mistress of Lord Arima, fears that she is being replaced by a younger woman named Otaki. In a fit of jealousy, she kills the younger girl. The dead woman's cat licks her blood and becomes a demon, seeking revenge on Okoyo. There are scenes of disembodied heads floating around and one in which the ghost, with her hands folded in like a cat's paws, forces two of her victims to tumble around repeatedly.
