# El estanque endemoniado (1979)

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**Original title**: *夜叉ヶ池*
**Runtime**: 124 min
**Genres**: Fantasy, Romance
**Directed by**: Masahiro Shinoda
**Written by**: Tsutomu Tamura, Haruhiko Mimura, Izumi Kyōka
**Starring**: Tamasaburō Bandō V, Gō Katō, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kōji Nanbara, Yatsuko Tan'ami, Hisashi Igawa

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A traveler discovers a village praying to a pond’s resident spirits. Akira and Yuri’s romance is collateral in an old story. Those spirits might be too busy watching the locals’ desperate dances to notice.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, surreal, tender

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