This Daei Studio Horror movie version utilises the legendary Yotsuya Kaidan storyline. This version is by director Kazuo Mori, who is best known for the episodes of "Zaitoichi". The complicated storyline takes place around 1786 and concerns the life of a masterless samurai, Lemon who is unhappy in marriage with his ill wife Oiwa and hates working for a living doing assembly piecework for umbrellas. Lemon concocts a plan for an arranged and profitable marriage to Oume, a rich young lady, so that he can live the life he desires. He hires thugs to attack the young and rich Lady and Lemon battles them off. In gratitude, Oume gives a gift of "medicine" for Lemon's sick wife. It's actually a poison. Lemon uses it to kill his wife. She dies and her ghost takes revenge.
