The Snow Woman

The Snow Woman
The Snow Woman
	Theatrical release poster
Japanese name
Kanji	怪談かいだん雪女郎ゆきじょろう
Revised Hepburn
Transcriptions
Revised Hepburn	Kaidan Yukijorō
Directed by	Tokuzō Tanaka
Screenplay by	Fuji Yahiro
Based on	Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things; by Lafcadio Hearn
Produced by	Ikuo Kubodera
Starring	Shiho Fujimura; Akira Ishihama; Machiko Hasegawa
Cinematography	Chikashi Makiura
Edited by	Hiroshi Yamada
Music by	Akira Ifukube
Production; company	Daiei Film
Distributed by	Daiei
Release date	April 20, 1968;
Running time	80 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

The Snow Woman (Japanese: 怪談かいだん雪女郎ゆきじょろう, 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.^[1]^[2]^[3] 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

In the midst of a snow storm, an evil witch changes the lives of a master sculptor and his apprentice forever.^[4]

Cast

Shiho Fujimura as Yuki^[4]
Machiko Hasegawa as Wife^[4]
Akira Ishihama as Yosaku^[4]
Taketoshi Naitō as Mino Gonmori^[4]
Yoshiro Kitahara as Jōjin^[4]
Sachiko Murase as Soyo^[4]
Suga Fujio as Soju^[4]
Mizuho Suzuki as Gyokei^[4]
Masao Shimizu as Jiun^[4]
Shinya Saitō as Taro^[4]
Jutaro Hojo as Matsukawa^[4]
Tatsuo Hananuno as Shigeruasa^[4]
Hara Izumi as Miko^[4]
Tokio Oki as Doctor A^[4]
Jun Fujikawa as Doctor B^[4]
Yukio Horikita as Guard^[4]
Ichi Koshikawa as Man of the Agency^[4]

Release

The Snow Woman was released in Japan on April 20, 1968.^[4] It was released in the United States as Snow Ghost by Daiei International Films with English subtitles in 1969.^[3] The film was released on VHS by Daiei Home Video on July 8, 1994^[5] and on DVD on July 25, 2014 by Kadokawa Shoten.^[6]

References

^ キネマ旬報きねまじゅんぽう1968年ねん5月がつ上旬じょうじゅん号ごう. Kinema Junpō. 1968. p. -77-78.
^ "怪談かいだん雪女郎ゆきじょろう" (in Japanese). The TV. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
^ ^a ^b Galbraith IV 1996, p. 362.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s "怪談かいだん雪女郎ゆきじょろう : 作品さくひん情報じょうほう". 映画えいが.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 2021-07-14.
^ "怪談かいだん雪女郎ゆきじょろう (1968) director: Tokuzô Tanaka | VHS | DAIEI VIDEO (japan)". www.videospace.fi. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
^ "邦画ほうが怪談かいだん雪女郎ゆきじょろう[DABA-90971][DVD] 価格かかく比較ひかく". 価格かかく.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 2021-07-14.

Sources

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

External links

The Snow Woman at IMDb

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[1] キネマ旬報きねまじゅんぽう1968年ねん5月がつ上旬じょうじゅん号ごう. Kinema Junpō. 1968. p. -77-78.

[2] "怪談かいだん雪女郎ゆきじょろう" (in Japanese). The TV. Retrieved 30 November 2021.

[FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV1996362-3] Galbraith IV 1996, p. 362.

[:0-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s "怪談かいだん雪女郎ゆきじょろう : 作品さくひん情報じょうほう". 映画えいが.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 2021-07-14.

[5] "怪談かいだん雪女郎ゆきじょろう (1968) director: Tokuzô Tanaka | VHS | DAIEI VIDEO (japan)". www.videospace.fi. Retrieved 2021-07-14.

[6] "邦画ほうが怪談かいだん雪女郎ゆきじょろう[DABA-90971][DVD] 価格かかく比較ひかく". 価格かかく.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 2021-07-14.

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