Original title: Yasha-ga-ike / Yasha-ga-ike
Year: 1979
Country: Japan
Region Code: 4K UHD: A/B/C; Blu-Ray: A
Content: 4K UHD + Blu-Ray
EAN: 715515303712
Image: 1.85:1 (2160p)
HDR: -
Audio: Japanese - Uncompressed Mono
Subtitles: English SDH
Rating: Not Rated
Genre: Horror
Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Go Kato
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Synopsis:
Japanese New Wave renegade Masahiro Shinoda transforms a classic Kabuki tale with his own extravagant visual style in this dimension-shattering folk-horror fantasy. When a lone traveler (Tsutomu Yamazaki) stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a nearby pond reside spirits who hold the fate of the town's inhabitants—including lovers Akira (Go Kato) and Yuri (Kabuki legend Tamasaburo Bando, who also plays the ethereal princess reigning over the water)—in their hands. Set to the swirling strains of electronic-music pioneer Isao Tomita's synth score, Demon Pond blends theatrical artifice with cinematic surrealism for an aquatic-apocalyptic fable of human love and folly caught in the current of nature's wrath.
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