titre anglais | Ghost Story of the Snow Witch |
titre original | Kaidan Yuki Joro |
autres titres | Snow Ghost |
année | 1968 |
pays | Japon |
réalisateur | TANAKA Tokuzo | |
interprète | FUJIMURA Shiho - 藤村志保 | |
ISHIHAMA Akira | ||
MURASE Sachiko | ||
NAITÔ Taketoshi | ||
SHIMIZU Masao | ||
SUGA Fujio | ||
SUZUKI Mizuho | ||
scénariste | YAHIRO Fuji |
genres | fantastique fantôme |
This is essentially the same Snow Witch story as told in the well-known Japanese ghost film anthology, "Kwaidan". Here it is extended out into a 75 minute excursion into the supernatural.
A master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special tree for carving a statue for the local temple. Finding refuge in an abandoned hut they celebrate their luck n finding the tree but soon they are visited by the Snow Witch who freezes the sculptor to death but takes pity on the apprentice. He must promise to never speak of this or she'll return and kill him. Back in town, the apprentice is promoted and given the task of making the statue. A mysterious beautiful woman arrives during a torrential rain storm and quickly falls in love with the apprentice. Soon she comes under the lustful eye of the evil Baliff who controls the town. And so it goes....