A man works as an orderly at the asylum where his wife has been imprisoned after attempting to drown herself along with their daughter. When said daughter wants to marry, he tries to hide her mothers as he slowly becomes unstable himself.


Short answer: yes, but it’s a challenging watch that rewards patient viewers with a haunting journey through madness and reality. If you’re a fan of early cinema, psychological thr...
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Teinosuke Kinugasa

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Minoru Inuzuka, Bankō Sawada, Yasunari Kawabata, Riichi Yokomitsu, Teinosuke Kinugasa
Japan
Horror, Thriller, Drama

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