The Mother Tree

Year: 1958

Runtime: 48 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Gorō Kadono

Horror

A painter abandons his family to take commissions from wealthy clients, decorating their homes. A ruthless samurai becomes obsessed with the painter’s wife, rapes her, then murders the painter and his servants. From the afterlife the painter’s spirit returns, exacts vengeance on the samurai, and rescues his wife and their newborn child.

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