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恋焦がれて死んだ美貌の娘の幽霊が、カラン､コロンと下駄の音を響かせ、夜ごと愛しい男を訪ねる、という幻想的なシーンが有名な傑作怪談「牡丹燈籠(ぼたんどうろう)」。 実はこの「お露・新三郎」の怪談話は、初代三遊亭圓朝(さんゆうていえんちょう)による長編落語のほんの一部にすぎません。原作は、お露の父・平左衛門とその忠臣・孝助、お家乗っ取りを企(たくら)む希代の悪女・お国と、その間男(まおとこ)・源次郎、強欲な町人夫婦・伴蔵とお峰・・・。男女の色と欲が生々しく交錯するドロドロの人間ドラマであり、20年にもわたる壮大な敵討ち、因果応報の物語になっています。 最後には「幽霊より人間が怖い」と感じさせる傑作長編愛憎劇を、新たな視点と演出で今回初めて完全映像化！ワイヤーアクションや特殊メイク、チャンバラもふんだんに投入。和製ホラーの決定版を、現代日本を代表する俳優陣...。American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].。
