The Snow Woman (1968)

A master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special tree for carving a statue for the local temple. Finding refuge in an abandoned hut they celebrate their luck in finding the tree but soon they are visited by the Snow Witch who freezes the sculptor to death but takes pity on the apprentice. He must promise to never speak of this or she’ll return and kill him.
Tokuzō Tanaka
Shiho Fujimura, Akira Ishihama, Machiko Hasegawa, Yoshirô Kitahara, Sachiko Murase, Taketoshi Naitô, Mizuho Suzuki, Fujio Suga, Masao Shimizu, Jutarô Hojo, Tatsuo Hananuno, Izumi Hara, Tokio Oki, Jun Fujikawa, Shin’ya Saitô, Eijirō Yamaoka, Hajime Koshikawa, Yukio Horikita, Kiyoshi Kasuga, Ken’ichirô Imura
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