Woman in the story
How does the ending differ from the one in Tales from the Darkside? What is the happy ending in this one like? Spoil it for me please.
shareI had a vague memory of the Tales From The Darkside movie. It must have been inspired by the Japanese ghost story featured in Kwaidan.
I wouldn't call the ending of "The Woman In The Snow" story happy. The man marries a woman and it turns out that she was the ghost that he had killed the old man. After he unknowingly tells her of the secret, she reveals herself as the ghost.
Unlike the Tales From The Darkside story, her children DO NOT also turn into monsters, they stay human. She leaves the human, swearing that if he does not take good care of their children she will return to kill him.
She leaves and the man bursts into agonized tears.
That story is similar to the one in the Tales From The Darkside movie, called "Lover's Vow" (with a gargoyle instead of a ghost).
The very last part of Kwaidan is story within a story. A man reads off an unfinished tale of a samurai who accidentally drinks the soul of a ghost. It cuts back to reality with the storyteller's wife and publisher finding the storyteller's soul imprisoned in a pot of water.
It is not a happy ending.
yeah but in tales from the darkside, the guy gets killed and the gargoyle flies off with its children. Lands ontop of a building and as the sun rises, the three of them turn to stone.
it was a wierd ending.
Oy. I think I'll stick with the ending in "The Woman in the Snow", thanks.
shareI had noticed the similarities between the tale in 'Tales From The Dark Side' and the story 'Woman of The Snow' in this film and book by Lafcadio Hearn.
Is it officially based on 'Woman of The Snow' or was it just added to the other film as an homage, either to Hearn's book, the original Japanese folktale or this film?
Whatever the case may be, I prefer the ending (and whole approach) to this tale as was done in 'Kwaidan'.
"Nothings gonna change my world!"
Yeah. It differs from the ending of 'Tales from The Darkside' because Hearn recorded it that way (e.g. Yuki-onna not killing Minokichi due to the children) and Kobayashi directed it that way; it is a wonderful ending to that great story.
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Please mark your posts as spoilers when you give away a plot as you did here.
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