Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kōya Hijiri (1979)

Director: Masateru Nishiyama

While on a pilgrimage, young monk Sōchō sees a waterfall turn blood-red, a sight villagers fear is the curse of a woman who drowned herself years ago. Ignoring their warnings, he ventures into the haunted Tenbu Pass to find a missing medicine seller. There, he encounters a stunning woman in a remote house, but anyone who touches her is transformed into an animal…

Cast

Hanako Dodaigo

Ken Kitabayashi

Tonayama Taiji

Sadanji Ichikawa IV

Mari Tanaka

Tetsuya Yamaoka

Jun Kondô

Ichirō Yamamoto

Kazuo Inami