Synopsis

A convoluted plot follows the murder of a money-lending masseur by an impoverished samurai. The slain masseur's daughter will also fall victim to his curse, so that she can become empowered as an agent of her father's vengeance. Because the killer too soon commits suicide from guilt, the curse falls mainly to the murderer's son, who had nothing to do with the masseur's murder but is a pretty lousy son of a bitch in his own right. In the complicated tale that follows are ample opportunities for action & horror resulting from the masseur's curse, faithless love, a wife's hideous disfigurement of the young samurai's mistress who is the masseur's daughter.