The Ghosts of Kagami Pond

The Ghosts of Kagami Pond (1959) is a horror, drama directed by Masaki Mōri rated 8.5/10.

A store manager named Kinbei becomes enraged when the owners of the store decide to hand it down to an adopted son instead of him. He hatches a plot to murder them all, but as it turns out he has done this sort of thing before. As bodies pile up in the nearby Kagami Pond, a ghostly vengeance is about to be unleashed.