Snake Woman's Curse
1968
85 Min
Synopsis
When a wealthy landlord causes the death of a poor farmer, enslaves the man’s wife and daughter, and then kills a snake the wife was protecting, he unleashes the serpent’s curse. Before long, the landlord finds himself being driven mad by deathly spirits as terrible misfortune rains down on his family — including his son, whose young bride starts growing scales and green skin in this film from Japanese horror auteur Nobuo Nakagawa.
Director
Nobuo Nakagawa
Nobuo Nakagawa (18 April 1905 — June 17, 1984) was a Japanese film director, most famous for the stylized, folk tale-influenced horror films he made in the 1950s and 1960s. Nakagawa began his film career as an apprentice to Masahiro Makino in 1934 and made his directorial debut with Itahachi Jima (1938). To Western audiences, his most famous film is Jigoku (1960), which he also co-wrote. The film was released on DVD by the Criterion Collection in 2006. His last film was 1982’s Kaiidan: Ikiteiru Koheiji. —Wikipedia
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