Kō Nishimura
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
日本語
Description
In this atmospheric tale of revenge from beyond the watery grave, a pirate-ransacked freighter's violent past comes back to haunt a young woman living in a seaside town. Mixing elements of kaidan (ghost stories), doppelgänger thrillers, and mad-scientist movies, Hiroshi Matsuno's The living skeleton is a wild and eerie work.
2) Akai satsui
Series
Criterion collection volume 471, 474
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
Sadako is a typical Imamura heroine: one who revels in the pleasures of food, labor, sex, and self-preservation. Carrying the burden of her status as a lowly, poor, prostitute-birthed commoner wife, Sadako is subjected to an escalating series of belittlement both at home and in society.
Series
Criterion collection volume 791
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
日本語
Description
Not rated. Restricted by collection developer.
A young woman, trained from childhood as an assassin and hellbent on revenge for her father's murder and her mother's rape, hacks and slashes her way to gory satisfaction. Rampant with inventive violence and spectacularly choreographed swordplay, the influential cult classic Lady Snowblood and set in late nineteenth century Japan, is a bloody, beautiful extravaganza composed of one elegant widescreen...