Demon Pond (4KUHD + Blu-ray)

Japanese New Wave renegade Masahiro Shinoda transforms a classic Kabuki tale with his own extravagant visual style in this dimension-shattering folk-horror fantasia. When a lone traveler (Tsutomu Yamazaki) stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a nearby pond reside spirits who hold the fate of the town\u2019s inhabitants\u2014including lovers Akira (Go Kato) and Yuri (Kabuki legend Tamasaburo Bando, who also plays the ethereal princess reigning over the water)\u2014in their hands. Set to the swirling strains of electronic-music pioneer Isao Tomita\u2019s synth score, Demon Pond blends theatrical artifice with cinematic surrealism for an aquatic-apocalyptic fable of human love and folly caught in the current of nature\u2019s wrath.\n\nREGION A4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES\n--4K digital restoration, supervised by director Masahiro Shinoda and actor Tamasaburo Bando, with uncompressn