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The Snow Woman
Theatrical release poster
Japanese name
Kanji怪談雪女郎
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnKaidan Yukijorō
Directed byTokuzō Tanaka
Screenplay byFuji Yahiro
Based onKwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
by Lafcadio Hearn
Produced byIkuo Kubodera
StarringShiho Fujimura
Akira Ishihama
Machiko Hasegawa
CinematographyChikashi Makiura
Edited byHiroshi Yamada
Music byAkira Ifukube
Production
company		Daiei Film
Distributed byDaiei
Release date
  • April 20, 1968 (1968-04-20)
Running time80 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

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.

Plot

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In the midst of a snow storm, an evil witch changes the lives of a master sculptor and his apprentice forever.

Cast

  • Shiho Fujimura as Yuki
  • Machiko Hasegawa as Wife
  • Akira Ishihama as Yosaku
  • Taketoshi Naitō as Mino Gonmori
  • Yoshiro Kitahara as Jōjin
  • Sachiko Murase as Soyo
  • Suga Fujio as Soju
  • Mizuho Suzuki as Gyokei
  • Masao Shimizu as Jiun
  • Shinya Saitō as Taro
  • Jutaro Hojo as Matsukawa
  • Tatsuo Hananuno as Shigeruasa
  • Hara Izumi as Miko
  • Tokio Oki as Doctor A
  • Jun Fujikawa as Doctor B
  • Yukio Horikita as Guard
  • Ichi Koshikawa as Man of the Agency

Release

The Snow Woman was released in Japan on April 20, 1968. It was released in the United States as Snow Ghost by Daiei International Films with English subtitles in 1969. The film was released on VHS by Daiei Home Video on July 8, 1994 and on DVD on July 25, 2014 by Kadokawa Shoten.

References

  1. キネマ旬報1968年5月上旬号. Kinema Junpō. 1968. p. -77-78.
  2. "怪談雪女郎" (in Japanese). The TV. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  3. ^ Galbraith IV 1996, p. 362.
  4. ^ "怪談雪女郎 : 作品情報". 映画.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 2021-07-14.
  5. "怪談雪女郎 (1968) director: Tokuzô Tanaka | VHS | DAIEI VIDEO (japan)". www.videospace.fi. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
  6. "邦画 怪談雪女郎[DABA-90971][DVD] 価格比較". 価格.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 2021-07-14.

Sources

  • Galbraith IV, Stuart (1996). The Japanese Filmography: 1900 through 1994. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0032-3.

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