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Oct 20, 2024 · Demon Pond (Japanese: 夜叉ヶ池, Hepburn: Yasha-ga-ike) is a 1979 Japanese romantic fantasy film directed by Masahiro Shinoda. It is an adaptation of the 1913 play of the same name by Izumi Kyōka, with an adapted screenplay written by Haruhiko Mimura and Tsutomu Tamura.
Set to the swirling strains of electronic-music pioneer Isao Tomita’s synth score, Demon Pond blends theatrical artifice with cinematic surrealism for an aquatic-apocalyptic fable of human love and folly caught in the current of nature’s wrath.
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Oct 15, 2024 · Demon Pond has this cynical subtext, particularly in the lifeboat ethics of its drought-besieged townspeople and their political administrators, when push comes to shove. But it’s filtered by the farcical mythology and by the dread of ancient and ineluctable natural forces, for which the national character may not bear any causal responsibility.
Japan, 1979. Directed by Masahiro Shinoda. Based on the play by Kyoka Izumi. With Tsutomu Yamazaki, Go Kato, Tamasaburo Bando. Approx. 123 min. DCP restoration. A man (Tsutomu Yamazaki) wanders from the countryside and encounters an abandoned doll on his way to an isolated mountain village in Fukui.
Oct 16, 2024 · On a backpacking trip, a traveler named Gaukuen (Tsutomu Yamazaki) arrives in a sleepy Japanese village, a place he chose mostly because the name of a nearby lake—“Demon Pond”—intrigued him. When he arrives at the village, he walks into an unsettling funeral procession, where no one acknowledges his presence, followed by the ringing of ...
Masahiro Shinoda's "Demon Pond" may run a little long at two hours, but those who are patient with it are treated to a fascinating blend of drama, fantasy, romance, and a touch of horror that combine to tell an intriguing tale of legends and their ties to a secluded village & its inhabitants.
