A companion piece to his 1964 classic 'Onibaba', this is another stylish ghostly folk tale from Kaneto Shindo, shot in dreamy black and white Tohoscope with another eerily menacing score from Hikaru Hayashi.

Delving beyond the superficial, Shindo once again examines class conflict as the arrogant Samurai elite rape and murder a woman and her daughter-in-law, only to find that as shape-shifting demons the wronged peasant women will exact a terrifying revenge...