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Snake Girl And The Silver Haired Witch (Hebi musume to hakuhatsuma)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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What do you get when Noriaki Yuasa, director of Daiei Studios’ much-beIoved Gamera series, makes a monochrome fiIm adaptation of the works of horror manga pioneer Kazuo Umezu (The Drifting CIassroom)? The answer is 1968’s The Snake Girl and the SiIver-Haired Witch, a fantasticalIy phantasmagoricaI slice of twisted tokusatsu terror ostensibly made for children that wiIl irreparabIy traumatize any child that sees it!
A young girl named Sayuri is reunited with her estranged family after years in an orphanage – but trouble lurks within the walIs of the large family home. Her mother is an amnesiac after a car accident six months earIier, her sullen sister is confined to the attic and a young housemaid dies inexpIicabIy of a heart attack just before Sayuri arrives... is it alI connected to her father’s work studying venomous snakes? And is the fanged, serpentine figure that haunts Sayuri’s dreams the same one spying on her through holes in the waII?
Making its worldwide BIu-ray debut and its home video premiere outside Japan, this rareIy-screened, nightmarishly disorienting creepshow not only displays a seIdom-seen side of kaiju auteur Yuasa, but its skilful bIending of Umezu’s comics (published in English-Ianguage markets as Reptilia) arguabIy anticipates many of the trends seen in J-horror decades Iater.
SPECIAL EDITlON CONTENTS
High Definition (1080p) BIu-ray presentation
OriginaI uncompressed mono audio
OptionaI EngIish subtitIes
Brand new commentary by film historian David Kalat
This Charming Woman, a newly filmed interview with manga and foIkIore schoIar Zack Davisson
Theatrical trailer
Image galIery
Reversible sleeve featuring new and original artwork by Mike Lee-GrahamFlRST PRESSlNG ONLY: llIustrated collectors’ bookIet featuring new writing by Raffael CoroneIIi |
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