Shikoku
Cunning Folk
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1h 40m
1999 • Japan • Directed by Shunichi Nagasaki
In the ghostly pastoral horror of Shikoku, a young woman returns after many years to her rural birthplace, only to find her best friend from childhood has died by drowning when just sixteen. The dead girl's mother, the local Shintoist priestess, has embarked on the region's famous pilgrimage - but why is she walking backwards?
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