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When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.


Tetta Sugimoto

Chikako Aoyama

Hiroko Nakajima

Ren Osugi

Kaoru Mizuki

Akiko Nakamura
1990 botan-dôrô is a drama, fantasy, horror film released in 1990. Directed by Itsumichi Isomura, it stars Tetta Sugimoto, Chikako Aoyama, Hiroko Nakajima. Adaptation of the traditional Japanese ghost story The Peony Lantern.
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