Under the Cherry Blossoms

Under the Cherry Blossoms
  • Release date: 31 May 1975
  • Release year: 1975
  • Runtime: 95 minutes
  • Country: Japan
  • Keywords: woman, city, man, folk horror, psychological horror, surrealism, violence, nudity, murder, mountain
Plot:
A brutal mountain man is a footpad on the road, killing his victims to robber their possessions. When he stumbles upon a beautiful woman from the city, he kills her husband and servant and brings her to his house on the mountain to be his wife. When the woman sees his other wives, he asks him to kill all of them except a crippled one to be her servant. The man tries to please his new wife, but she is never satisfied. She asks him to go to the city and then she decides to collect heads of people. Her husband begins a crime spree and is know as "The Cutthroat". Some time later, he decides to return to his mountain house and his wife says that she will go with him. He decides to take a different way under the blossoming cherry tree where something happens.
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