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Having put down his sword and given up the will to fight, the masterless samurai Iemon lives in solitude while being haunted by his violent enigmatic past...
Warau Iemon
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Warau Iemon: Eternal Love, Kwaidan: Das Herz des Samurai, 伊右卫门永恒的爱, 嗤笑伊右卫门
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Japan
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07 Feb 2004
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I stumbled on accident on this quite enjoyable samurai drama based on a novel by Natsuhiko Kyôgoku which is in turn a twist on the popular Japanese ghost story Yotsuya Kaidan .
Warau Iemon is apparently a pretty obscure movie (I actually had to put it onto TMDb in order to review it here, which is a first for me), but entertained me nonetheless.For anybody unfamiliar with the underlying kaidan (ghost story) let me summarise it real quick:
Yotsuya Kaidan tells the story of a vengeful samurai, Iemon, who after murdering her father, poisons his wife Oiwa, who after getting disfigured from the poison on one side of her face, ultimately dies. However, this being a kaidan , she…