Review of Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

A brutal mountain man is a footpad on the road, killing his victims to robber their possessions. When he stumbles upon a beautiful woman from the city, he kills her husband and servant and brings her to his house on the mountain to be his wife. When the woman sees his other wives, he asks him to kill all of them except a crippled one to be her servant. The man tries to please his new wife, but she is never satisfied. She asks him to go to the city and then she decides to collect heads of people. Her husband begins a crime spree and is know as "The Cutthroat". Some time later, he decides to return to his mountain house and his wife says that she will go with him. He decides to take a different way under the blossoming cherry tree where something happens.

"Sakura no mori no mankai no shita", a.k.a. "Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees", is another weird Japanese film. The plot begins showing people on the present days having fun under the blossoming cherry trees, but warns that in the past, people feared the cherry trees. Then the story discloses the story of a strong and brutal mountain man that takes a beautiful, but evil and deranged woman from the city as part of his pillage. The man begins an insane crime spree to satisfy the bizarre desires of his new wife. The conclusion is abrupt and quite open. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Sob as Cerejeiras em Flor" ("Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees")