A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat begins haunting the conspirators. This is Takako Irie's first bakeneko (ghost cat) movie; it started a Daiei cycle which was very popular at the time in Japan.

お家騒動に巻き込まれ、井戸に投げられて死んだ家老の呪いのため、奇怪な化け猫に翻弄される佐賀藩城内の騒乱を描く。浪花千栄子が猫に憑かれて狂態を見せるほか、“怪猫女優”入江たか子も面目躍如たる怪演ぶりで見る者を怖がらせる。