If you loved Demon Pond, try Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
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Both films are directed by Masahiro Shinoda, and they both carry the surreal mood tag, and they sit in Fantasy / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to Demon Pond, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees is
Kyoto mountains. Spring. An axe. A woodcutter takes wives, one after another. Each ends up dead. He meets a bewitching woman in the forest, and his murderous cycle escalates. Shinoda's artful ghost story is more uncanny than frightening.
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