The Snow Woman Blu-Ray

Two lumberjacks head up into the mountains to fell an old tree. They get caught in a snowstorm and spend the night in a mountain cabin, where a female spirit appears and kills one of the men. She spares the other man's life on the condition that he never tells anyone what happened that night. The woodcutter (Akira Ishihama, Harakiri) marries the mysterious beauty Yuki (Shiho Fujimura, Shinobi) and together they have a child. But Yuki catches the eye of a lustful lord, whose advances force her to reveal a dark secret. Period film specialist Tokuzo Tanaka, former assistant to both Akira Kurosawa and Kenji Mizoguchi, creates a dark and atmospheric story in which the viewer can fully empathize with the ghost. With music by Akira Ifukube, the composer behind Godzilla. EXTRA: SPECIAL FEATURES

New 4K restoration

Uncompressed mono PCM audio

Appreciation by filmmaker Masayuki Ochiai

Visual essay by Lafcadio Hearn scholar Paul Murray

Trailer

Newly improved English subtitle translation