If you loved L'Étang du démon, try Sous les cerisiers en fleurs
Un pont entre un film que tu as déjà vu et un que peu de gens ont croisé. Voici ce qu'ils partagent, et ce que le second fait que le premier ne fait pas.
Ce qu'ils partagent
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 L'Étang du démon, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Sous les cerisiers en fleurs 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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