The Snow Woman (Japanese: 怪談雪女郎, Hepburn: Kaidan Yukijorō, lit.

The film opens on two sculptors walking through a snow-covered forest in feudal Japan.

The men find a large tree that the elder master wants to cut down and carve into a statue of the Buddhist goddess Kannon.

She spares the younger apprentice (Yosaku), making him promise to not tell anyone what he saw or she will kill him.

A young woman (Yuki) traveling through town stays the night at Yosaku's home during heavy rain.

The shamaness or medium running the service is suspicious of Yuki, and flings boiling water at her, burning her skin.

Yosaku realizes that Yuki is the Snow Woman who killed his master, and confronts her about their first encounter.

As this breaks his promise to never speak of the incident, Yuki says she must kill him, but is interrupted by their son crying in the other room.

[4] It was released in the United States as Snow Ghost by Daiei International Films with English subtitles in 1969.