The House Where Evil Dwells (1982)

At the prompting of his diplomat friend Alex writer Ted Fletcher takes his wife Laura and daughter Amy on an extended working holiday Alex finds a house for them in Kyoto Japan and the Fletchers move in laughing off rumors that the place is haunted But the ghost of 19thcentury samurai Shigero turns out to be very real and is intent on making the family reenact an ancient murdersuicide