This surprised me. I knew the basic plot was centred around a Yuki Onna (Snow Woman) folk tale, but I wasn’t expecting all the beautiful, haunting, emotional, tragic romance to go along with it. More the fool me probably for having such simple expectations. But back to…

Lexzilla

Horror fairy tales are perhaps my favorite type of horror. The Snow Woman is also a haunting love story, which I definitely appreciate once in a while. Especially one as familar as it is beautiful, with transformation sequences I couldn't look away from. An artist…

The Horror of Marna Larsen

79 minutes and it still feels like this movie really took its time to unpack itself. it’s a very rewarding experience and it all comes together in a devastating way. gorgeous stuff.

George Carmi

Spoilers ahead. The Snow Woman is a magnificent-looking film. Be they snowbound, forested, or rural, its settings are almost breathless, hermetically sealed in a way that feels cozy rather than sterile, like parts of a pocket universe to which only a few have access. And…

sakana1

Japanuary 2025 #1 When I woke up this morning, 2025 welcomed me with a cool breeze, snowflakes gently falling from the sky, and a light dusting of snow on the ground. I often loathe the wintertime (I hate being cold), but today is the ideal winter day. It is not…

Ben

1st Tokuzō Tanaka Forgot to post that I had another review up on The Geek Show! This time, it's the absolutely wonderful Daiei Gothic boxset from Radiance. Three gorgeous folksy tales of the supernatural that you've seen in different forms before (Kwaidan, anyone?) but…

Doc Lyon

“Yuki, why is your body so cold?” says Yosaku (Akira Ishihama) as they make love. But the audience knows what Yosaku has forgotten: in the film's (ahem) cold open, two wood sculptors looking for the perfect tree must shelter themselves from the snow. A woman in the snow…

Jon Peters

Hooptober 11: From Texas with love 💘 and so it begins... A demon captured within the frozen dust of a mystical snowstorm possesses those in its path in Tokuzō Tanaka's folk horror tale of mythical mayhem. A director perhaps best known for his part in the Zatoichi…

Graham

Watched this in honor of Shiho Fujimura’s recent passing. She’s incredibly good in this, probably her best performance. Few of her movies give her the chance to be so many different things in a single story—terrifying spirit, young woman in love, devoted mother. The scenes…

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