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After enlisting as a volunteer in a
war in 14th century Japan, his wife and mother remain living in a swamp.
They eke out their living by ambushing worn-out warriors, killing them
and selling their belongings to a greedy merchant. The woman comes to
mistrust her daughter-in-law who has coupled up with a deserter, and
begins to wear a facial mask she has taken from a slain samurai. Soon
the mask will not come off again. In this disguise she is at first taken
for a demon by her daughter.
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