* Third installment in Fuji Television's Noitamina late-night anime time slot. A collection of three classic Japanese horror stories. The first is a retelling of Yotsuya Kaidan, one of the most famous ghost stories in Japan, written by the 18th century kabuki playwright Tsuruya Nanboku. The second is based on Tenshu Monogatari, a play by Izumi Kyouka. The third, Bakeneko, is an original story.

Yotsuya Kaidan:

Tamiya Iemon is a samurai married to Oiwa, a beautiful woman, but he cannot bear the poverty they live in. One day, he is offered the opportunity to marry a rich woman and starts planning to kill Oiwa.

Tenshu Monogatari:

Himekawa Zushonosuke is a falconer sent by his master Harima to retrieve a falcon at the reputedly haunted Sirasagi castle. On his way, Zushonosuke meets a woman of an evanescent beauty bathing in a lake.

Bakeneko:

During the Edo period, the daughter of a family of samurai dies under mysterious circumstances, just before getting married. A wandering medicine seller senses that she was killed by a Bakeneko, a cat ghost. To fight it, he needs to know the form, the truth, and the reason why the Bakeneko has appeared, and the dark secrets of this uncommon family begin to unfold.

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Same setting: Mononoke