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Kaibyô nazo no shamisen (1938)

AKA: The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen
Kaibyô nazo no shamisen film image
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CURRENT RANK#3086 VOTES4
STATUS NEVER IN TOP 1,000
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Film details

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DirectorKiyohiko Ushihara
Year1938
CountryJapan
GenreSupernatural
TypeMovie
Runtime74m
CastTokusaburo Arashi, Shinpachirô Asaka, Yaeko Asano, Yuriko Asano, Junzaburô Ban, Mitsuko Gun, Matsuko Hidaka, Yasumasa Jitsukawa, Taisuke Matsumoto, Matsuko Miho

Ranking history

The 1,000 Greatest Horror Films

EDITIONS IN TOP 1,0000
HIGHEST#1,8932019
LOWEST#3,5542024
#1,760#2,724#3,68720192020202120232024202520262019 — #1,893 · Outside Top 1,0002020 — #2,092 · Outside Top 1,0002021 — #2,290 · Outside Top 1,0002023 — #3,420 · Outside Top 1,0002024 — #3,554 · Outside Top 1,0002025 — #2,955 · Outside Top 1,0002026 — #3,086 · Outside Top 1,000
Top 1,000Outside Top 1,000Missing ranking data

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Hidden Horrors

EDITIONS RANKED2
HIGHEST#1032026
LOWEST#1112025
#102#107#112202520262025 — #1112026 — #103
Published rankingNot ranked (outside published list)

The Hidden Horrors list was not updated in 2022. Full rankings beyond the published Top 150 are not available. Dotted segments and hollow points indicate editions in which the film was outside the published list; their exact ranks are unknown.

Lists featuring this film 4 lists
Alison Peirse's After Dracula - The 1930s Horror Film2013Unranked—
BFI's A great horror film from every year, from 1922 to now - runner up2022Unranked—
Creepy Catalog's Chris Laverne's 1930s Horror Movies, a Key Time in Cinematic History2023Unranked—
Paste's Jim Vorel's A Century of Terror - The 100 Best Horror Movies of the Last 100 Years - Honorable mentions2019Unranked—