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 | |
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| Japanese | 怪談雪女郎 |
| 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 |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
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In the midst of a snow storm, an evil witch changes the lives of a master sculptor and his apprentice forever.[4]
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]
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