Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern
1962, Japanese. Directed by Katsuhiko Tasaka.
One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy merchant named Matasaburo, who had run away from home with a woman he was in love with and had been living here. But this funeral was actually a kyogen (a farce) orchestrated by a gardener named Yunosuke, who had planted it without telling his wife, Okinu, in order to bilk his parents out of their money. Matasaburo believed Yunosuke, who said he would dig him up right away, and was buried in the ground. ......
- Runtime
- 1h 13m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 24 June 1962
- Original title
- 怪談夜泣き燈籠
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Minoru Inuzuka
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Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern runs 73 minutes (1h 13m).
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Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 24 June 1962. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern?
Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern (1962) was directed by Katsuhiko Tasaka and stars Ganjirō Nakamura II, Katsuhiko Kobayashi, Reiko Fujiwara.