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The most daring film import ever...From Japan!

7.7(487) 11/21/1964 1h 45m
Horror

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

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Top Cast

Nobuko Otowa

Nobuko Otowa

Woman

Jitsuko Yoshimura

Jitsuko Yoshimura

Young Woman

Kei Satō

Kei Satō

Hachi

Jūkichi Uno

Jūkichi Uno

The Samurai

Taiji Tonoyama

Taiji Tonoyama

Ushi

SM

Someshō Matsumoto

Runaway Warrior

KK

Kentarô Kaji

Runaway Warrior

Fudeko Tanaka

Fudeko Tanaka

Old Woman

Directed by

Kaneto Shindō

Production

Reviews

deepkino

7/10

1/14/2026

In the grip of war and famine, a makeshift hut amid the reeds, and two women—one waiting for her son, the other for her husband. So far, everything is as it is in other ordinary drama films. However, when the man of the house's friend returns from the war and tells them he died in battle, and especially when the young widow begins to meet with the person who returned from the war alive, things change.

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