Yotsuya Kaidan plot
Iemon Tamiya is a poor samurai, who has already known many misfortunes. He is married to the beautiful Iowa, but she shows him little love. Iemon's mother wants him to kill her and then marry Ume, the daughter of the wealthy Ito clan. When Iowa's father discovers his evil plans, Iemon kills him. The problems are not solved, but worsen until Iemon even administers a deadly poison to his wife while telling her it is a medicine. Years later in the kingdom of the Itos, Iemon has strange visions of the victims he made in this shameless act.