If you loved The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka, try Irezumi
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Yasuzō Masumura, and they both carry the dread mood tag, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Irezumi is
A snowy bridge. Footsteps. Otsuya flees her father's house with a clerk, only to find herself prey for a tattoo artist with a demonic vision. Ink blooms on her back, and her fate twists. Masumura's film is a feverish, lurid brand of transgression.

