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Satori Screen presents a rare chance to view two classic Japanese ghost stories on the big screen.
The Snow Woman - 1968 80m Dir: Tokuzō Tanaka
Two woodcutters head are caught in a snowstorm and end up spending the night in a mountain lodge, where a female spirit appears and takes the life of one of the men. She spares the other man’s life on the condition that he never tell anyone what happened that night. The woodcutter (Akira Ishihama) goes on to marry mysterious beauty Yuki (Shiho Fujimura) and together they have a child. But Yuki catches the eye of a lecherous lord, whose advances force her to reveal a dark secret...
The Haunted Castle - 1969 82m Dir: Tokuzō Tanaka
A blind monk is killed in a cowardly manner by a samurai lord. When the monk’s sister is ordered to become the lord’s concubine, she commits suicide and transfers her grudge to their black cat, who assumes the human form of one of the lord’s ladies-in-waiting and begins to wreak havoc around the castle court. The lord’s Machiavellian right-hand man (Rokko Toura) and a young swordsman (Kojiro Hongo) combine forces to solve the mystery and stop the supernatural menace.
This event will include an introduction from Satori Screen’s Peter Munford.
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