Two men encounter a bewitching beauty standing in the snow in white robes with apparently supernatural powers...and have sex with her. This 'pink' spin on the 'Yuki Onna' legend is pretty silly - the frosty temptress seems to temporarily die (or go rigid or frigid) at the moment of 'la petite mort' thus preventing her lover from withdrawing his weapon (or something to that effect). Meanwhile, a small group of angry villagers armed with farm tools are searching for the pale seductress with malicious intent. The cast is generally amateurish and the script (or at least the English subtitles) risible, but Kiyomi Itô as the titular yokai looks very nice both in and out of her flowing white robes. Having really liked the 'The Woman of the Snow' story in Kobayashi's unsettling anthology 'Kwaidan' (1965), I thought it might be worth watching this version when I spotted the DVD in the local library (it was not). I seem to be the first person on IMDB to comment on this now 23 year old pinkie, so perhaps a broader release was recent. Time to hunt down the 1968 version.
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