A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse

A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse (Japanese: 怪猫トルコ風呂, Hepburn: Kaibyō Toruko furo) is a 1975 Japanese erotic horror film directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi.^[2][3] More specifically, it belongs to the kaibyō eiga or bakeneko mono subgenre of horror films, in which the spirit of a vengeful woman manifests in the form of a "Monster cat" or "ghost cat",^[4] as happens in this film.

A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
Promotional release poster
Japanese name
Kanji	怪猫トルコ風呂
Transcriptions Revised Hepburn Kaibyō Toruko furo
Directed by	Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Written by	Masahiro Kakefuda Nobuaki Nakajima
Starring	Naomi Tani
Music by	Jun Fukamachi
Production company	Toei Company[1]
Release date	1975 (1975) (Japan)
Running time	81 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Cast

• Naomi Tani as Yukino
• Hideo Murota as Yuzo
• Misa Ohara as Mayumi, Yukino's sister
• Taiji Tonoyama as Genzō Kakinuma, bathhouse manager
• Tomoko Mayama as Utae Kakinuma, Genzō's second wife
• Terumi Azuma as Natsuyo Kakinuma, Genzō's daughter
• Kōji Fujiyama as Toriyama, bathhouse manager
• Sami Suzuki as Saburō, bathhouse manager
• Shingo Yamashiro as Young Master

Reception

In 2022, a 2K restoration of the film was released on Blu-ray in Region A by Mondo Macabro.^[5]

References

1. "Kōmei". Kōmei (in Japanese). No. 246–251. 1982. p. 161. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
2. 一柳廣孝; 吉田司雄 (2006). ナイトメア叢書 [Nightmare Series] (in Japanese). Vol. 3. p. 129. ISBN 9784787291813.
3. Higuchi, Takafumi (2009). ロマンポルノと実録やくざ映画: 禁じられた70年代日本映画 [Roman Porno and Real Yakuza Movies: Forbidden 70's Japanese Movies] (in Japanese). p. 192. ISBN 9784582854763.
4. Sharp, Jasper (2011). Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 86. ISBN 978-0810857957.
5. "A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse - Limited Red Case Edition". Mondo Macabro. Archived from the original on 9 September 2022. Retrieved 26 June 2023.

Further reading

• Uchiyama, Kazuki (2008). 怪奇と幻想への回路: 怪談からJホラーへ (in Japanese). p. 24.

External links

• A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse at IMDb