Sakura no mori no mankai no shita (1975)

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   panagos

   Weird, well directed, bad movie... 1 month 4 weeks ago
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   Siskoid

   From the Masahiro Shinoda films I've seen (Pale Flower, Double Suicide), I'm used to his making strange choices, but I really do question Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees starting in the present day with voice-over. I suppose it's meant to indicate this is a folk tale, and perhaps excuse its sometimes haphazard plot. Apparently, there was a time people were FREAKED OUT by cherry blossoms, but the film remains rather ambiguous as to the relationship between the cherry blossom forest and the cruel woman kidnapped and married by a mountain bandit - both are beautiful but terrifying, and both induce madness... is there more to it, though? Defying genre, the film is part horror, part romance (albeit a demented one), and part drama, but it also has a ghoulish sense of humor that marks it as the blackest of comedies. The woman in the story decides to accept the marriage, but immediately becomes the dominant figure, domestically and sexually, sending her mountain main to do the most horrendous things. I imagine that if this story took root in folklore, it was as a warning not to let women wear the pants in the family or some such thing. Beauty's corrupting influence, an excuse for misogyny. 6 months 1 week ago

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