Tomu Uchida’s stunning, wildly stylised widescreen tableaux – using expressionist sets and colour schemes – are finally available outside Japan for the first time, in this blu ray premiere from Arrow Video.
In stark contrast to the monochrome naturalism of his earlier masterwork Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji, visionary master director Uchida took inspiration from Bunraku and kabuki theater for arguably his strangest and most lavishly cinematic film, The Mad Fox.
Amidst a mythically-depicted medieval Japan, a court astrologer foretells a great disturbance that threatens to split the realm in two....