Yönetmen : Masaki Kobayashi Oyuncular : Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsuro Tamba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Katsuo Nakamura, Rentarô Mikuni Senaryo : Yôko Mizuki Yapımcı : Shigeru Wakatsuki

250 yıllık bir lanet ve nehirde saklı duran hayaletler artık su yüzüne çıkıyor. Bundan tam 250 yıl önce Shinzaemon adlı zalim bir samurai tefecilik yapan Soetsuyu öldürür ve cesedini nehire atar. Ancak bu nehirle ilgili bir efsane vardır. Nehirde batan ceset, su yüzüne bir daha asla çıkamayacaktır. Aradan 20 yıl geçer ve Shinzaemon?un oğlu bir tesadüf sonucu karşılaştığı Soetsu?nun kızına aşık olur. Ancak önce kendilerini bekleyen lanet ve nehirin sakladığı hayaletlerle yüzleşmek zorunda kalacaktır. This film contains four distinct, separate stories. "Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but finds the marriage disastrous and returns to his old wife, only to discover something eerie about her. "The Woman in the Snow": Stranded in a snowstorm, a woodcutter meets an icy spirit in the form of a woman spares his life on the condition that he never tell anyone about her. A decade later he forgets his promise. "Hoichi the Earless": Hoichi is a blind musician, living in a monastery who sings so well that a ghostly imperial court commands him to perform the epic ballad of their death battle for them. But the ghosts are draining away his life, and the monks set out to protect him by writing a holy mantra over his body to make him invisible to the ghosts. But they've forgotten something. "In a Cup of Tea": a writer tells the story of a man who keep seeing a mysterious face reflected in his cup of tea.