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Based on a Japanese story Yotsuya Kaidan only in modern times and involves greed where a crook willingly wants to marry an innocent woman and commits murder when people threaten his scheme including a Japanese family.
SYNOPSIS:
GHOST OF VENGEANCE
A man named Thomas Lemon meets with a man named John Masterson, Lemon wants to marry his daughter Elaine but John disapproves since they have only been dating for a week/month and Lemon is older. As Lemon tries to convince him, John reveals he did research on Lemon and found some upsetting information about him; and plans to turn it over to the cops but Lemon kills him, then frames his rival, a Japanese Businessman named Shin Yatsuya, the frame up is successful and Lemon and Elaine gain control over Shin’s company.
A young man named Dean Andrews knows Shin is innocent as he is an alibi for Shin, confiding in Shin’s lawyer Darryl Christian that he was hoping to marry Shin’s daughter Karu Yatsuya, knowing each other for longer than a week/month and is a good man. Christian is actually working for Lemon and warns him, they then hire goons to take of Dean but Dean shows himself to be a trained Martial Artist only to be shot by Lemon and pushed into the river, and make it sound like he left her for another woman, Karu’s twin sister Oiwa later learns Lemon is lying but is killed, but before she dies she vows to take revenge on Lemon until Lemon is punished. After she dies Lemon takes her necklace and passes it off as Native American and gives it to Elaine.
Lemon soon begins to see Oiwa’s tormented ghost wherever he goes, but also the ghosts of his other victims. Karu soon sees her sister’s necklace on Elaine and reveals it to police, and Detective Hank McGrath informs the family of Oiwa’s death and murder. Elaine is taken in but released then Dean revealed to be alive returns and tells the police that Shin is innocent, and Lemon is the real villain and tried to kill him as Christian denies it saying he is crazy then Oiwa appears, and her mother realizes Oiwa is now an Onryo a ghost of vengeance. One Oiwa shows her power; Christian finally comes clean about the frame up and murders. McGrath does a background check on Lemon and finds the truth of him: Lemon is not from a wealthy family as he claims, and has fake degrees, he has also been married several times to wealthy women but convinced his wife’s family to invest in business deals that did not exist or he had connections to, and once the money was invested he ran off leaving the wife and her family bankrupt and penniless and never filed for divorce. They also find he has been to prison a few times and was suspected of killing two wives. They realize Lemon isn't a businessman but a conman who preys on wealthy women and steals their money and will even kill if he has to.
Dean and Karu realize that Oiwa is now an Onryo and will not Passover until Lemon is punished and that kids were left with him and Elaine and are now in danger. Lemon learns that the cops are coming for him, and forces Elaine to give him money at gunpoint, finally revealing he was only marrying her for money and did not really love her, and that she was not his only wife. Dean and Karu arrive and fight Lemon knocking him out, McGrath arrives, and Lemon is arrested, Elaine breaks off the engagement and decides she is not ready to be a mother yet. Lemon is finally exposed and jailed for his crimes and Shin is freed and his family gets their company back, then on the anniversary of Oiwa’s death he is found dead strangled to death. Karu has a vision of his sister Oiwa joining their ancestors in Heave.
Dean and Karu have a daughter named Oiwa.