The Snow Woman

This article is about the 1968 film. For other uses, see Snow woman.

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.^[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.

The Snow Woman
Theatrical release poster
Japanese name
Kanji	怪談雪女郎
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 (1968-04-20)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

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

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.

External links

• The Snow Woman at IMDb