Radiance Films has just released this new set, filled with a collection of three of Japan’s most famous ghost stories that have haunted people for centuries. Beyond releasing Rashomon and series of movies featuring Gamera, Zatoichi, the Yokai Monsters and Daimajin, Daiei also released several dark horror films. And hey — they even had their own baseball team, the Daiei Stars, which later became the Daiei Unions, who are now known today as the Chiba Lotte Marines.

Radiance’s set has three horror visions from Daiei that have “elegant visuals and ominous shadows rival the best of Terence Fisher or Mario Bava, while their iconic female ghosts would greatly influence Asian genre cinema, from Hong Kong fantasy spectacles such as A Chinese Ghost Story to J-Horror.”

Here are the films in the set:

The Snow Woman: Directed by Tokuzo Tanaka (Zatoichi), this finds a woodcutter who must keep his oath to a vengeful female spirit or pay the ultimate price.

The Ghost of Yotsuya: Directed by Kenji Misumi (Lone Wolf and Cub), this is the story of a woman who comes back from the grave as a disfigured spectre set to haunt her husband and his new wife.

The Bride from Hades: Directed by Satsuo Yamamoto (Shinobi), this ghost story has a handsome samurai so enchanted by a courtesan’s beauty that he doesn’t realize that she’s not alive.

The Daiei Gothic set is a must have, as it allows you to have three imaginative and gorgeous Japanese horror classics in your library for one low price. I’ve seen these before on YouTube with washed out colors and imperfect subtitles. Seeing them in this set was a revelation.

The Daiei Gothic: Japanese Ghost Stories box set from Radiance Films has new 4K restorations of each film, all inside a newly designed box with artwork by Time Tomorrow. There’s also a limited edition 80-page perfect bound book featuring new writing by authors Tom Mes, Zack Davisson and Paul Murray, newly translated archival reviews and ghost stories by Lafcadio Hearn. This is a limited edition of 4,000 copies presented in a rigid box with full-height Scanavo cases for each film and removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings.

You can order this set from MVD.