The Snow Woman (1968)

Original title

怪談雪女郎

Directed by

Tokuzō Tanaka

Genre

kaidan eiga, fantastique film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 20m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woodcutter and his son take shelter in a hut during a blizzard. A mysterious snow spirit spares the son's life but warns him never to tell anyone what happened.

eerieatmosphericslow-burnmelancholicdreamlikecoldhauntingstarkfairy-tale-like

What happens

The Snow Woman (Japanese: 怪談雪女郎, Hepburn: Kaidan Yukijorō; lit. 'Ghost Story of the Snow Woman') is a 1968 Japanese fantasy horror film directed by Tokuzō Tanaka and produced by Daiei Film. The film is an expanded adaptation of the Yuki-onna short story as it appeared in the 1904 collection Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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