Otsuyu (played by Miyoko Akaza) is a protagonist in The Bride from Hades.
A young woman from the Yoshiwara who is meant to marry an elderly man. During Obon, she visits Hagiwara Shinzaburou with Oyone, asks him to marry her, and becomes his wife. Though Shinzaburou sees her as a woman, she is a ghost; she ultimately enters his protected home and embraces him, and they are found dead together. Oyone (played by Michiko Otsuka) appears in The Bride from Hades.
A woman from the Yoshiwara and Otsuyu's mistress, Oyone accompanies her to Shinzaburou's home during Obon and urges him to marry her. She officiates their wedding and, as a ghost, later confronts Banzou and bargains with him to remove the prayer scrolls protecting Shinzaburou. She is found as a skeleton beside Otsuyu after Shinzaburou's death.
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Characters
Otsuyu
(played by Miyoko Akaza) — protagonist
A young woman from the Yoshiwara who is meant to marry an elderly man. During Obon, she visits Hagiwara Shinzaburou with Oyone, asks him to marry her, and becomes his wife. Though Shinzaburou sees her...
Oyone
(played by Michiko Otsuka) — supporting
A woman from the Yoshiwara and Otsuyu's mistress, Oyone accompanies her to Shinzaburou's home during Obon and urges him to marry her. She officiates their wedding and, as a ghost, later confronts Banz...
Canonical Relationships
Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.
Oyone → Otsuyu
(Power Mistress And Ward)
The plot identifies Oyone as Otsuyu's mistress and shows Oyone arranging Otsuyu's temporary marriage.
Story Analysis
A brief Obon romance becomes a supernatural marriage that carries a living man into death.
