The Snow Woman

The Snow Woman (怪談雪女郎) is a 1968 Japanese fantasy horror film directed by Tokuzō Tanaka and produced by Daiei Film. The film is an expanded adaptation of the Yuki-onna short story as it appeared in the 1904 collection Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn.

Plot
In the midst of a snow storm, an evil witch changes the lives of a master sculptor and his apprentice forever.

Cast

 * Shiho Fujimura as Yuki
 * Machiko Hasegawa as Wife
 * Akira Ishihama as Yosaku
 * Taketoshi Naitō as Mino Gonmori
 * Yoshiro Kitahara as Jōjin
 * Sachiko Murase as Soyo
 * Suga Fujio as Soju
 * Mizuho Suzuki as Gyokei
 * Masao Shimizu as Jiun
 * Shinya Saitō as Taro
 * Jutaro Hojo as Matsukawa
 * Tatsuo Hananuno as Shigeruasa
 * Hara Izumi as Miko
 * Tokio Oki as Doctor A
 * Jun Fujikawa as Doctor B
 * Yukio Horikita as Guard
 * Ichi Koshikawa as Man of the Agency

Release
The Snow Woman was released in Japan on April 20, 1968. It was released in the United States as Snow Ghost by Daiei International Films with English subtitles in 1969. The film was released on VHS by Daiei Home Video on July 8, 1994 and on DVD on July 25, 2014 by Kadokawa Shoten.