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In this film, an esteemed warrior demands a soldier behead him and kneels behind a rock to hide the killing; as the subordinate walks away with the man’s head, another man stabs him in the back and steals it. A shot in this film pans from a couple together in a hot spring to nearby rocks, then dissolves into neatly raked pebbles near that same couple having an idyllic picnic by the water. The director instructed cinematographer (*) Kazuo Miyagawa to make this film “unroll seamlessly” like a traditional scroll; that influence is seen in a shot in this film that pans to follow a man walking through his abandoned home before entering a second time, where he finds his son and the spirit of his dead wife. For 10 points, the potter Genjuro is seduced (10[1])by the spirit of Lady Wakasa in what supernatural film set in war-torn medieval Japan and directed by Kenji Mizoguchi? ■END■

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